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Frankie Faison has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Silence of the Lambs.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%MGM+ · Included

Do the Right Thing
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Banshee
2013 · Series · Actor
Top 11%Max · Included

Fatherhood
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Netflix · Included

White Chicks
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Netflix · Included

Coming to America
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.
Dir. David Schickler, Jonathan Tropper · With Antony Starr, Ivana Miličević, Hoon Lee

A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story.
Dir. Paul Weitz · With Kevin Hart, Melody Hurd, Alfre Woodard

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich European-American women.
Dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans · With Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Frankie Faison

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.
Dir. John Landis · With Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Dir. Chinonye Chukwu · With Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison

Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Dir. Jon Gunn · With Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen, Faye Dunaway

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Dir. Max Mayer · With Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher

Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover as he’s fallen in love.
Dir. John McTiernan · With Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary

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
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.
Dir. Stephen King · With Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington

Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
Dir. Paul Weitz · With Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Special Agent Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI, is a force of nature, the living embodiment of a dream deferred – and she works together with her new colleagues at the Los Angeles office of the Bureau to bring down the country’s toughest criminals.
Dir. Alexi Hawley, Terence Paul Winter · With Niecy Nash, Felix Solis, James Lesure

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly 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.
Dir. Jon Amiel · With Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Bill Pullman
James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for Fargo's 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, which the now-disabled killer has turned into a rolling death trap. James' search is helped by a state traffic officer and a singer with her own agenda.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.
Dir. Nicolas Pesce · With Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho
When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network, she gets more than she bargained for.
Dir. Peter Werner · With Whoopi Goldberg, Nigel Hawthorne, Victor Garber
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Dir. Geoff Murphy · With Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo

A woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
Dir. Julia Hart · With Rachel Brosnahan, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Arinzé Kene

Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure there's been a mistake. Miraculously, he's right! An angel tells Lance he was taken prematurely but assures him he can be returned to Earth - in the aged body of a ruthless white billionaire. In this improbable reincarnation, Lance begins a hilarious quest to realize his showbiz dream...and, along the way, discovers the person he never imagined he could be.
Dir. Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz · With Chris Rock, Regina King, Chazz Palminteri

While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar--only they're not the people the police are searching for.
Dir. Kevin Spacey · With Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise

A jet leaves on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston. But early in the flight, ten passengers awaken to a startling realization: All of the other passengers have vanished.
Dir. Stephen King · With Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Kate Maberly
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