The best James McDaniel’s drama movies

James McDaniel

James McDaniel

25/03/1958 (66 años)
Today we present the best James McDaniel’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 James McDaniel’s movies.
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Malcolm X

Malcolm X
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 18/11/1992
  • Character: Brother Earl
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Sunshine State

Sunshine State
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/06/2002
  • Character: Reggie Perry
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

Silencing Mary

Silencing Mary
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/03/1998
  • Character: Professor Thiel
Mary Stuartson is proud to be the first in her family to attend a university, but when her roommate, Holly, is raped by the school's star football player, Mary, who is a reporter for the college newspaper, begins her own investigation.

Killer Hair

Killer Hair
5.7/10
A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is assigned to the case.

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

Truth or Consequences, N.M.
6.3/10
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago. (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.

El Cortez

El Cortez
5.3/10
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.

Lapsis

Lapsis
6.2/10
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.

Rocket Gibraltar

Rocket Gibraltar
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 02/09/1988
  • Character: Policeman
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him.

Night Comes On

Night Comes On
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/08/2018
  • Character: Danny - Parole Officer
Angel is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.

Scam

Scam
5.4/10
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?

Hostile Makeover

Hostile Makeover
6/10
Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it confesses that receives death threats from someone. Everything is complicated when the artist is shot dead during the program. Lacey will be involved in the case and launch an investigation to find the guilty.

Sins of the Preacher

Sins of the Preacher
5.4/10
After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her.

Unforgivable

Unforgivable
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/04/1996
  • Character: Spider
John Ritter plays a family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leaving his family and almost killing his new girlfriend in one of his rages, he is ordered to seek professional help through an innovative therapy program or go to jail.

Murder in Black and White

Murder in Black and White
5.8/10
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.

Earthwork

Earthwork
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/05/2011
  • Character: Lone Wolf
In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel. Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel to become his crew. Over the months it took to complete the earthwork, Stan dealt with a myriad of difficulties in bringing his unique, rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs his art exacted upon his life. In the process, he unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and it's ultimate, lasting rewards

Sacrifice

Sacrifice
5.7/10
Four teenagers from a small Texas town come face-to-face with their own consciences after a tragic accident.

King's Faith

King's Faith
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/04/2013
  • Character: Mike
When eighteen-year-old Brendan King attempts to leave his turbulent gang life behind him, his past continues to threaten his new-found faith, family, and future

The Defenders: Choice of Evils

The Defenders: Choice of Evils
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/01/1998
  • Character: Jack Casey
The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story

Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/12/2000
  • Character: Nat 'King' Cole
The true life story of famed singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat 'King' Cole. Gripping drama of her struggle with addiction and living in her father's shadow while still maintaining her own celebrity status.

Edge of America

Edge of America
7/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 10/12/2003
  • Character: Kenny Williams
From acclaimed director, Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time" comes this touching and inspirational story about loyalty, friendship and courage. New man in town Kenny Williams (James McDaniel) has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team.

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