Terrence Howard’s Typical Vibe
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Terrence Howard has 29 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Iron Man.
Recurring themes

The Contract
2006
Drama · Action

Killshot
2008
Crime · Drama

A Man Apart
2003
Action · Drama

The Score
2001
Action · Crime

Rust Creek
2019
Thriller · Drama

A Score to Settle
2019
Action · Crime

Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009
Action · Crime

Bad Day for the Cut
2017
Thriller · Drama

Iron Man
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

The System
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Starz · Included

Four Brothers
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Paramount+ · Included

Hustle & Flow
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Awake
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Prime Video · Included

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Disney+ · Included

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Dir. Jon Favreau · With Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis

Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla and Louis, are searching for him too.
Dir. Kirsten Sheridan · With Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Dir. Theodore Melfi · With Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Jaeden Martell
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

When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Dir. Dallas Jackson · With Tyrese Gibson, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.
Dir. John Singleton · With Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André 3000

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Dir. Craig Brewer · With Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning

While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
Dir. Joby Harold · With Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
Dir. Stephen Herek · With Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas

A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
Dir. Richard Shepard · With Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg

When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Morris Chestnut

Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
Dir. RZA · With Shameik Moore, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Denzel Whitaker
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With 50 Cent, Joy Bryant, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
Dir. Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes · With Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker

In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
Dir. Niels Arden Oplev · With Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt

After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based on the lives and loves of his tight-knit group of friends. Harper is set to be best man at his friend Lance's wedding, and all his friends will be in attendance. When an advance copy of the book makes its way into the hands of his ex-flame, Jordan, Harper attempts to keep it under wraps.
Dir. Malcolm D. Lee · With Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long

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.
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When Harvey offers Shawn help at making the real cash, the two form an uneasy partnership.
Dir. Dito Montiel · With Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Zulay Henao

A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
Dir. Danny Strong, Lee Daniels · With Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson, Bryshere Y. Gray

When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.
Dir. Gregory Hoblit · With Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard

A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
Dir. Matthew Chapman · With Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Terrence Howard

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Dir. Robert Redford · With Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte

John 'Breacher' Wharton leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done – until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
Dir. David Ayer · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.
Dir. Luis Mandoki · With Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel, Jeremy Sisto
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.
Dir. Raja Gosnell · With Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti
A young woman is catapulted into pop stardom, with her already-famous DJ boyfriend calling the shots.
Dir. Vondie Curtis-Hall · With Mariah Carey, Max Beesley, Da Brat
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