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Cuba Gooding Jr. has 37 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Life in a Year.
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Collateral Damage
2002
Action · Thriller

Pistol Whipped
2008
Action · Thriller

Straight from the Barrio
2008
Drama · Action

Backdraft
1991
Drama · Thriller

Green Street Hooligans
2005
Crime · Drama

Adulthood
2008
Crime · Drama

Patriot Games
1992
Drama · Action

Mercury Rising
1998
Action · Crime

American Gangster
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Netflix · Included

Boyz n the Hood
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Men of Honor
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

Gladiator
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

The Tuskegee Airmen
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Max · Included

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Dir. Mitja Okorn · With Jaden Smith, Cara Delevingne, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin

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

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.
Dir. Thomas Carter · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.
Dir. George Tillman Jr. · With Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron

A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Dir. James L. Brooks · With Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight, he's noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing — where punches can kill.
Dir. Rowdy Herrington · With James Marshall, T.E. Russell, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Tom Cruise, Renée Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.
Dir. Lee Daniels · With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him. Soon, Radio is Jones' loyal assistant, and he becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School. But things start to sour when Coach Jones begins taking guff from parents and fans who feel that his devotion to Radio is getting in the way of the team's quest for a championship.
Dir. Michael Tollin · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard

Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he died, his wife Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
Dir. Vincent Ward · With Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra

The true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.
Dir. Jake Goldberger · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Malcolm M. Mays, Kevin Hendricks

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
Dir. Robert Markowitz · With Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner

A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale

Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary

In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.
Dir. Rowdy Herrington · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Berenger, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Dir. Anthony Hemingway · With Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Cuba Gooding Jr.

In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
Dir. Jerry Zucker · With Gloria Allred, Breckin Meyer, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal · With Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Dir. William Kaufman · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Cole Hauser, Jonathan LaPaglia

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland

Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his aunt's final wish -- to create a local choir.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Beyoncé, Mike Epps

A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.
Dir. Franck Khalfoun · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Harvey Keitel, Alex Meneses

A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
Dir. William Kaufman · With Dolph Lundgren, Cuba Gooding Jr., Leo Gregory
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.
Dir. Simon Wincer · With Paul Hogan, Beverly D'Angelo, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Secret Service agent Alex Thomas is detailed with protecting the president of the United States but, at a public appearance, everything went wrong and the president is assassinated. Wracked with guilt, he blames himself for his team's failure. Meanwhile, seasoned journalist Kate Crawford comes to believe there's a massive conspiracy afoot and convinces Alex of it. Together they unravel a treacherous web of lies as they try to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy amid the deadly threat of shadowy assassins and ex-special ops enforcers.
Dir. Andy Cheng · With Cuba Gooding Jr., Angie Harmon, James Woods
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
Dir. Brian Robbins · With Eddie Murphy, Thandiwe Newton, Terry Crews
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Dir. Brian Levant · With Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Sisqó

as Loofah (voice) · Voice
Littlefoot learns a series of important lessons following an incident that nearly costs his grandmother her life. Soon afterwards, three dinosaurs arrive claiming they have lost their way.
Dir. Jamie Mitchell, Charles Grosvenor · With Cody Arens, Logan Arens, Jeff Bennett
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