Samuel L Jackson, a list by Mokono

8.7

/1371221/

85

/25752/

84

/13899/

4.5

/1908257/

93

/167/

97

/29224/

92

/21/

4.0

age 18+

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

90

IMDb 93

8.8

/2403020/

86

/53257/

84

/29506/

4.2

/3743587/

92

/185/

96

/62759/

95

/27/

4.0

age 17+

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

87

7.9

/122413/

78

/3479/

77

/1922/

4.4

/477967/

92

/150/

89

/3366/

93

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione 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.

86

8.8

/24825/

83

/1288/

80

/1129/

4.5

/167353/

85

/238/

81

/1050705/

95

/12/

A former assassin—known only as The Bride—wakes up from a coma after her former boss and lover, Bill, shoots her in the head and steals her unborn child during her wedding rehearsal. She soon embarks on a bloody quest for revenge, hunting down her ex-colleagues of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. Quentin Tarantino’s complete Kill Bill, a combination of Volumes 1 and 2, previously deleted scenes, alternate takes, a full-color remaster of the Crazy 88 fight, a 7-minute anime sequence by Production I.G., and a built-in intermission.

85

7.9

/24604/

79

/1229/

77

/502/

4.2

/63193/

99

/210/

83

/257/

95

/36/

3.5

age 13+

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

85

8.5

/1854353/

84

/52964/

81

/27409/

4.3

/2853703/

87

/295/

92

/16024/

81

/42/

age 18+

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

84

8.0

/858961/

80

/25078/

78

/14701/

4.1

/1501858/

84

/247/

89

/30858/

83

/41/

4.0

age 18+

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

84

7.9

/1207246/

80

/62040/

76

/27622/

3.8

/2095122/

94

/278/

91

/82980/

79

/38/

4.0

age 13+

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

83

8.0

/886552/

80

/41289/

77

/18523/

4.1

/2100830/

97

/248/

75

/1099153/

90

/41/

3.5

age 7+

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

82

7.5

/15986/

75

/535/

72

/227/

3.8

/11180/

88

/40/

91

/402/

81

/28/

4.0

Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.

82

7.5

/69037/

78

/2118/

74

/848/

3.9

/85521/

84

/45/

93

/2213/

76

/19/

4.0

age 17+

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

81

8.4

/1417586/

84

/58301/

82

/27110/

3.9

/3111168/

94

/552/

90

/20562/

78

/57/

2.5

age 13+

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.

81

8.2

/1160184/

82

/39632/

79

/17387/

4.1

/1967743/

91

/204/

91

/38382/

68

/21/

3.0

age 11+

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

80

7.7

/960482/

78

/49011/

76

/19629/

3.8

/1774209/

90

/310/

92

/12038/

70

/48/

3.5

age 13+

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

79

7.9

/258303/

78

/5963/

75

/2940/

4.0

/257075/

93

/60/

93

/9525/

59

/19/

3.0

age 17+

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

79

7.5

/364357/

76

/26762/

74

/13439/

3.4

/1341308/

93

/384/

84

/3594/

80

/51/

3.5

age 8+

Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three children.

79

8.4

/1345613/

84

/66283/

82

/31324/

4.0

/3161134/

85

/487/

92

/11970/

68

/54/

2.5

age 13+

As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.

79

7.2

/12632/

71

/329/

63

/150/

3.8

/24942/

83

/133/

90

/364/

78

/21/

4.0

age 16+

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

79

7.5

/399283/

75

/10179/

73

/6746/

3.9

/551988/

88

/97/

85

/6858/

62

/23/

4.0

age 16+

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

77

7.2

/1703/

72

/99/

64

/33/

3.8

/5895/

100

/43/

63

/7/

83

/16/

3.5

age 15+

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

76

7.1

/59645/

70

/1412/

68

/932/

3.6

/125306/

82

/89/

83

/858/

78

/14/

3.5

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

76

7.6

/909420/

77

/32240/

74

/14571/

4.0

/1940249/

79

/335/

66

/1608216/

68

/40/

3.5

age 11+

When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.

76

8.0

/1541102/

81

/73845/

79

/34979/

3.7

/2301778/

80

/274/

75

/15709/

69

/43/

3.0

age 13+

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!

75

7.1

/18564/

70

/288/

69

/201/

3.6

/16265/

81

/26/

79

/314/

76

/24/

3.5

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.

75

7.3

/625156/

75

/38909/

74

/16570/

3.4

/2143453/

91

/455/

95

/8963/

69

/55/

2.5

age 11+

Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.

75

7.6

/35510/

76

/735/

73

/439/

3.6

/10750/

73

/41/

91

/1630/

57

/22/

3.5

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.

74

7.3

/41948/

76

/3618/

76

/1055/

3.5

/28824/

78

/79/

100

/49/

59

/19/

2.5

age 13+

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream.

74

7.3

/11417/

73

/157/

70

/171/

3.7

/6240/

84

/19/

77

/121/

57

/8/

3.5

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

74

7.0

/32818/

74

/1158/

72

/432/

3.6

/38191/

81

/32/

90

/1660/

60

/17/

3.0

age 17+

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

74

7.6

/21714/

78

/1193/

72

/350/

3.8

/14598/

79

/24/

85

/1258/

54

/10/

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more.

74

7.3

/166059/

74

/4786/

71

/2284/

3.6

/72105/

75

/57/

79

/2721/

62

/24/

3.5

age 15+

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

73

7.6

/5659/

76

/296/

73

/113/

3.8

/10943/

82

/33/

82

/22/

60

/11/

2.5

age 15+

An intimate look into the life of icon Quincy Jones. A unique force in music and popular culture for 70 years, Jones has transcended racial and cultural boundaries; his story is inextricably woven into the fabric of America. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing major pop hits of the early 1960s and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations in the same time period.

73

7.3

/33489/

71

/911/

71

/482/

3.7

/15719/

68

/28/

80

/371/

A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. Locked in a philosophical debate, both passionately defend their personal credos and try to convert the other.

72

6.6

/20889/

65

/375/

63

/304/

3.5

/18583/

81

/52/

67

/458/

78

/24/

3.5

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

72

7.2

/13239/

71

/307/

66

/160/

3.4

/2651/

78

/129/

76

/439/

64

/32/

3.5

age 17+

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.

72

7.5

/201330/

76

/5025/

73

/2817/

3.8

/179375/

66

/56/

85

/3590/

53

/21/

3.0

age 15+

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

72

7.3

/189161/

76

/5413/

75

/3174/

3.8

/270326/

63

/146/

85

/10575/

57

/36/

3.0

age 14+

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

72

7.8

/713538/

77

/31971/

77

/14904/

4.0

/1153379/

74

/332/

77

/4685/

68

/51/

2.0

age 18+

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

72

7.7

/769100/

78

/45836/

76

/17498/

3.8

/1318206/

75

/264/

84

/7421/

60

/50/

2.0

age 16+

The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

72

7.3

/987171/

74

/52474/

72

/23995/

3.2

/1769129/

75

/371/

82

/10376/

66

/49/

3.0

age 13+

When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.

71

6.9

/956052/

74

/46469/

70

/22363/

3.3

/1598704/

80

/274/

75

/15709/

66

/43/

3.0

age 11+

During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.

72

71

7.5

/6921/

75

/445/

74

/245/

3.5

/3148/

73

/79/

77

/523/

61

/20/

age 6+

African Cats captures the real-life love, humor and determination of the majestic kings of the savanna. The story features Mara, an endearing lion cub who strives to grow up with her mother’s strength, spirit and wisdom; Sita, a fearless cheetah and single mother of five mischievous newborns; and Fang, a proud leader of the pride who must defend his family from a once banished lion.

71

7.1

/9982/

73

/681/

68

/208/

3.5

/7325/

72

/246/

MAL

7.3

/65239/

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. The sparks of violence dropped along Afro’s bloody path now burn out of control – and nowhere are the flames of hatred more intense than in the eyes of Sio.

71

7.6

/427915/

77

/15064/

72

/6476/

3.7

/226679/

60

/80/

83

/13402/

58

/19/

3.0

age 15+

New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

71

7.3

/464292/

73

/19516/

71

/9713/

3.7

/479560/

70

/172/

77

/12562/

62

/31/

3.0

age 13+

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

70

6.2

/5499/

67

/406/

59

/84/

3.3

/21867/

88

/134/

64

/80/

69

/40/

3.5

age 14+

A brother and sister's battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived — and who defines a family legacy.

70

6.8

/15228/

76

/1638/

73

/473/

3.1

/7334/

62

/78/

96

/325/

51

/25/

3.0

age 15+

The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.

69

6.5

/77401/

66

/1965/

62

/1166/

3.0

/23444/

77

/151/

53

/1327/

69

/36/