Angela Bassett

King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.

Dir. Ryan Coogler · With Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

Dir. Christopher McQuarrie · With Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Dir. Pete Docter · With Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton

Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.

Dir. Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Tim Minear · With Angela Bassett, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oliver Stark

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...

Dir. John Singleton · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube

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.

Dir. Spike Lee · With Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.

Dir. Ryan Coogler · With Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Lupita Nyong'o

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods

A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.

Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo · With Millie Bobby Brown, Brooke Carter, Nick Robinson

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Dir. Michael Crichton · With Maura Tierney, Parminder Nagra, Linda Cardellini

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.

Dir. Frank Oz · With Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando

In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

Dir. Brian Gibson · With Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Bell Calloway

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.

Dir. Doug Atchison · With Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Dir. Rod Lurie · With Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett

When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Finley Jacobsen

"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time: The Notorious B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."

Dir. George Tillman Jr. · With Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Naturi Naughton

To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.

Dir. Navot Papushado · With Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Chloe Coleman

In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.

Dir. Gregg Araki · With Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni

A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral, but nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed... and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.

Dir. Tyler Perry · With Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Lance Gross

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

Dir. Wes Craven · With Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.

Dir. Forest Whitaker · With Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

Dir. Babak Najafi · With Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett

Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.

Dir. McG · With Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy

Feeling forgotten on Mother's Day, three best friends leave the suburbs and drive to New York City to surprise their adult sons.

Dir. Cindy Chupack · With Angela Bassett, Patricia Arquette, Felicity Huffman

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

Dir. Stephen J. Anderson · With Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman

Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

Dir. Salim Akil · With Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, Angela Bassett

A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.

Dir. Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, Michael S. Schmidt · With Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan

Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and live out their dreams in the Land of the Living.

Dir. Henry Selick · With Lyric Ross, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele

A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

Dir. James McTeigue · With Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott