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Viola Davis has 42 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Prisoners.
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The Help
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Suicide Squad
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

The Woman King
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Hulu · Included

Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 · Movie · Voice
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%Netflix · Included

The Unforgivable
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Netflix · Included

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

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Dir. Tate Taylor · With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.
Dir. James Gunn · With Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
Dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood · With Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch

Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a new kung fu practitioner for the spot and will encounter a villain called the Chameleon who conjures villains from the past.
Dir. Mike Mitchell · With Jack Black, Awkwafina, Viola Davis

as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Netflix · Included+1
64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.
Dir. Francis Lawrence · With Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Dir. Nora Fingscheidt · With Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio

A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
Dir. Peter Nowalk · With Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Jack Falahee

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck · With Keir Gilchrist, Emma Roberts, Zach Galifianakis

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
Dir. Ben Affleck · With Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.
Dir. D.J. Caruso · With Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss

In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Dir. John Patrick Shanley · With Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime and beyond.
Dir. Bertie, Bert · With Mckenna Grace, Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Dir. Gavin Hood · With Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Dir. Todd Haynes · With Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert

A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Dir. Stephen Daldry · With Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn

Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse begins working on the unsolved murder of a bank teller shot during a robbery. Also, his investigation of an alleged rape draws him into conflict with the town council — which hopes to preserve Paradise's reputation as an ideal seaside resort.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth

A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.
Dir. Denzel Washington · With Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Malcolm David Kelley

When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled teens.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Dir. Denzel Washington · With Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson

After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Hardaway lands a case that's too personal to handle: that of a young prostitute and former drug addict named Candace, also a childhood friend. When Candace winds up in jail, Madea takes the young woman under her protective wing.
Dir. Tyler Perry · With Tyler Perry, Derek Luke, Keshia Knight Pulliam

A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Tom Selleck, Saul Rubinek, Viola Davis

After the G20 Summit is overtaken by terrorists, President Danielle Sutton must bring all her statecraft and military experience to defend her family and her fellow leaders.
Dir. Patricia Riggen · With Viola Davis, Anthony Anderson, Marsai Martin

Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. Stone's old habits die hard as he continues to indulge his two favorite things: Scotch whiskey and women. After a series of murders, the first ever in Paradise, and a high school girl is raped he's forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
Dir. Robert Harmon · With Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth
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

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Dir. Tate Taylor · With Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd

Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dir. Ned Benson · With James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader

Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
Dir. Charles Stone III · With Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham

A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
Dir. James Mangold · With Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard

Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dir. Ned Benson · With Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis
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