Danny Glover
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Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. Glover is perhaps best known for his roles as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise.
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Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
As: Milo
As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Jake Kasdan
Stars: Karen Gillan | Kevin Hart | Dwayne Johnson | Jack Black | Awkwafina
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
As: Hank Thompson
In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Chloë Sevigny | Bill Murray | Selena Gomez | Austin Butler | Adam Driver
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
As: Grandpa
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Joe Talbot
Stars: Danny Glover | Tichina Arnold | Rob Morgan | Jonathan Majors | Jimmie Fails
Always in Season (2019)
As: Narrator (voice)
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Jacqueline Olive
Stars: Danny Glover
Christmas Break-In (2019)
As: Ray
Izzy is an energetic 9-year-old. Overscheduled and running late, Izzy's parents can't pick her up on-time the last day of school before Christmas break. A blizzard complicates the matter, but not as much as a pair of bad guys who are freezing in an ice cream truck. The school's janitor is kidnapped by the intruders, and it's up to Izzy to save the day.
Runtime: 87 min.
Stars: Danny Glover | Sean O'Bryan | Denise Richards | Katrina Begin | Cameron Seely
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
As: Teddy
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: David Lowery
Stars: Danny Glover | Tika Sumpter | Robert Redford | Casey Affleck | Sissy Spacek
Ulysses: A Dark Odyssey (2018)
As: Mr. Ocean
Taurus City, The United States of Europe, 2023. Uly, a disillusioned soldier riddled with amnesia, returns home from a war in the Middle East, knowing only that he must desperately comb the city to find his beloved wife, Penelope. Fate fills this endless night with a series of chance meetings. Whether it be the wealthy Alcyde, the beastly cyclops Popov, Aeo the Gyspy, or Cici the Sorceress, good or ...
Directed by: Federico Alotto
Stars: Anamaria Marinca | Danny Glover | Udo Kier | Gianni Capaldi | Andrea Zirio
Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (2018)
As: Narrator
Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.
Runtime: 56 min.
Directed by: Charles Burnett
Stars: Danny Glover
Survivor's Guide to Prison (2018)
As: Himself
Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So in the unfortunate case it should happen to you - this is the Survivors Guide to Prison.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Matthew Cooke
Stars: Danny Trejo | Susan Sarandon | RZA | Patricia Arquette | Deepak Chopra
Death Race: Anarchy (2018)
As: Baltimore Bob
Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Don Michael Paul
Stars: Danny Trejo | Danny Glover | Zach McGowan | Fred Koehler | Christine Marzano
Come Sunday (2018)
As: Gilbert Pearson
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Joshua Marston
Stars: Danny Glover | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Condola Rashad | Martin Sheen | Jason Segel
Proud Mary (2018)
As: Benny
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Babak Najafi
Stars: Danny Glover | Taraji P. Henson | Neal McDonough | Billy Brown | Jahi Di'Allo Winston
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
As: Langston
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Boots Riley
Stars: Terry Crews | Omari Hardwick | Tessa Thompson | Lakeith Stanfield | Jermaine Fowler
The Christmas Train (2017)
As: Max Powers
Forced to take the intercontinental trip to Los Angeles by train, and determined to chronicle his adventure, disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon finds himself westbound with a variety of characters. While all passengers on the Christmas train appear to be headed for the same destination, Tom has no idea that the rugged locomotives taking him across America will instead detour straight into his heart.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Ron Oliver
Stars: Danny Glover | Joan Cusack | Dermot Mulroney | Kimberly Williams-Paisley | Holly Dignard
The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
As: Dr. Powell
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Matthew Currie Holmes
Stars: Evan Ross | Danny Glover | Henry Czerny | Colm Feore | Dominique Provost-Chalkley
The Good Catholic (2017)
As: Victor
An idealistic young priest is dedicated to his calling until he meets a woman at confession. After the meeting, he seeks guidance from his fellow priests.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Paul Shoulberg
Stars: John C. McGinley | Danny Glover | Wrenn Schmidt | Zachary Spicer
Tour de Pharmacy (2017)
As: Slim Robinson Present Day
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.
Runtime: 39 min.
Directed by: Jake Szymanski
Stars: Orlando Bloom | Jeff Goldblum | Andy Samberg | J.J. Abrams | John Cena
Birth of a Movement (2017)
As: Narrator
In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith’s technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly The Birth of a Nation, unleashing a fight that still rages today about race relations, media representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement, based on Dick Lehr's book The Birth ...
Runtime: 57 min.
Directed by: Bestor Cram | Susan Gray
Stars: Danny Glover | Spike Lee | Reginald Hudlin | Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Monster Trucks (2016)
As: Mr. Weathers
Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp, a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Chris Wedge
Stars: Danny Glover | Lucas Till | Amy Ryan | Rob Lowe | Jane Levy
Almost Christmas (2016)
As: Walter
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since their mom died.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: David E. Talbert
Stars: Danny Glover | Omar Epps | John Michael Higgins | Romany Malco | Kimberly Elise
Pushing Dead (2016)
As: Bob
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Tom E. Brown
Stars: Danny Glover | Robin Weigert | Khandi Alexander | James Roday | Tom Riley
Complete Unknown (2016)
As: Roger
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Joshua Marston
Stars: Michael Chernus | Danny Glover | Michael Shannon | Rachel Weisz | Kathy Bates
Gridlocked (2016)
As: Sully
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Allan Ungar
Stars: Danny Glover | Stephen Lang | Dominic Purcell | Saul Rubinek | Cody Hackman
Back in the Day (2016)
As: Eddie 'Rocks' Travor
A young boxer is taken under the wing of a mob boss after his mother dies and his father is run out of town for being an abusive alcoholic.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Paul Borghese
Stars: Danny Glover | Michael Madsen | Shannen Doherty | Alec Baldwin | Annabella Sciorra
93 Days (2016)
Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and TIFF Rising Star Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama star in director Steve Gukas’ riveting real-life thriller about courageous health-care workers in Lagos battling the Ebola outbreak of 2014.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Steve Gukas
Stars: Danny Glover | Alastair Mackenzie | Bimbo Akintola | Somkele Idhalama | Seun Kentebe
Mr. Pig (2016)
As: Ambrose
On a mission to sell his last remaining prize hog and reunite with old friends, an aging farmer abandons his foreclosed farm and journeys to Mexico. After smuggling in the hog, his estranged daughter shows up, forcing them to face their past and embark on an adventurous road trip together.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Diego Luna
Stars: Maya Rudolph | Danny Glover | Angélica Aragón | Joel Murray | José María Yazpik
Dirty Grandpa (2016)
As: Stinky
Jason Kelly is one week away from marrying his boss's uber-controlling daughter, putting him on the fast track for a partnership at the law firm. However, when the straight-laced Jason is tricked into driving his foul-mouthed grandfather, Dick, to Daytona for spring break, his pending nuptials are suddenly in jeopardy. Between riotous frat parties, bar fights, and an epic night of karaoke, Dick is on a ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Dan Mazer
Stars: Robert De Niro | Aubrey Plaza | Zac Efron | Dermot Mulroney | Julianne Hough
Diablo (2016)
As: Benjamin Carver
A young civil war veteran is forced on a desperate journey to save his kidnapped wife.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Roeck
Stars: Danny Glover | Walton Goggins | Camilla Belle | Adam Beach | Scott Eastwood
Extortion (2016)
As: Constable Haagen
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Phil Volken
Stars: Eion Bailey | Danny Glover | Tim Griffin | Barkhad Abdi | Bethany Joy Lenz
Darkweb (2016)
As: The Boss
A mysterious group has created a sadistic venture. Kidnapping young women, they auction the rights to hunt them to millionaires with a thirst for blood - and broadcast the hunt on the dark web for the world to see.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Bruno Vaussenat
Stars: Danny Glover | Olivier Gruner | Nina Seul | Tristan Robin | Petra Silander
Andron (2015)
As: Chancellor Gordon
A group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, where they must fight to survive, as the outside world watches.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Francesco Cinquemani
Stars: Leo Howard | Danny Glover | Alec Baldwin | Gale Harold | Michelle Ryan
Waffle Street (2015)
As: Edward Collins
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Eshom Nelms | Ian Nelms
Stars: Danny Glover | Marshall Bell | Dale Dickey | James Lafferty | Julie Gonzalo
Checkmate (2015)
As: Elohim
Six people are thrown together during an elaborate bank heist where any move can alter the outcome. Is it coincidence, or are they merely pawns in a much bigger game.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Timothy Woodward Jr.
Stars: Vinnie Jones | Sean Astin | Danny Glover | Michael Paré | Mischa Barton
Consumed (2015)
As: Hal Westbrook
When Sophie's son, Garrett, develops a mysterious illness, she embarks on a search for answers. This leads her into the controversial world of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) where a sociopolitical battle rages between organic farmers and big biotech corporations. As her desperation grows, so too does her quest for knowledge. And the deeper she goes, a more heightened sense of danger develops ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Daryl Wein
Stars: Beth Grant | Victor Garber | Taylor Kinney | Zoe Lister-Jones | Kunal Nayyar
About Scout (2015)
As: Red
A rebellious Goth girl embarks on a road trip across Texas with a suicidal young man in an effort to find her little sister.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Laurie Weltz
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | India Ennenga | Nikki Reed | James Frecheville | Onata Aprile
Bad Asses on the Bayou (2015)
As: Bernie Pope
The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez (Loni Love). What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Craig Moss
Stars: Danny Trejo | Danny Glover | John Amos | Jimmy Bennett | Loni Love
Caffeinated (2015)
As: Coffee Lover
This documentary explores a vivid and unmatched perspective to the existence of coffee in our daily lives. Expanding production to United States, Italy, India, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the film takes coffee enthusiasts on a trip that will transcend their knowledge of the beverage and get them close to a human reality they haven't experienced before.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Hanh Nguyen | Vishal Solanki
Stars: Danny Glover | John Savage | Katie Leclerc | Jeremy Adams | Andrew Alcala
Toxin (2015)
As: Dr. Locke
A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Jason Dudek
Stars: Vinnie Jones | Danny Glover | Taylor Handley | Margo Harshman | C.S. Lee
Beyond the Lights (2014)
As: Captain Nicol
Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Stars: Danny Glover | Minnie Driver | Nate Parker | Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Machine Gun Kelly
Day of the Mummy (2014)
As: Carl
Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood-spilling guardians of its riches. Jack Wells has arrived in Egypt in search of the famous diamond known as The Codex Stone. His journey leads him to the tomb of the cursed King Neferu, cursed not by name but by nature. With his centuries-old slumber ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Johnny Tabor
Stars: Danny Glover | William McNamara | Andrea Monier | Natalie De Luna | Anthony Fanelli
Yellowbird (2014)
As: Darius
Yellowbird lives in the ruins of an old house. He lacks the confidence to leave his home, no matter how much Bug, his labybird friend, tries to convince him to go out into the world. Attempts to toughen him up have had little success, so Bug seizes an opportunity that leaves Yellowbird unexpectedly finding himself the new leader of the flock that is migrating to Africa. Still, lacking faith ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Christian De Vita
Stars: Danny Glover | Elliott Gould | Christine Baranski | Dakota Fanning | Seth Green
2047 - Sights of Death (2014)
As: Sponge
The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by Sponge to collect evidence against the CCG for its heinous crimes. Ryan soon faces the sinister Colonel Asimov, Major Anderson and a group of mercenaries lead by Lobo. His mission quickly turns chaotic when he meets Tuage, a mutant survivor ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Alessandro Capone
Stars: Stephen Baldwin | Danny Glover | Michael Madsen | Rutger Hauer | Daryl Hannah
Supremacy (2014)
As: Mr. Walker
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Deon Taylor
Stars: Danny Glover | Joe Anderson | Derek Luke | Julie Benz | Dawn Olivieri
We Are Many (2014)
As: Himself
The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Amir Amirani
Stars: Danny Glover | Richard Branson | Damon Albarn | Noam Chomsky | Brian Eno
Tokarev (2014)
As: Detective St. John
When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Paco Cabezas
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Rachel Nichols | Danny Glover | Peter Stormare | Aubrey Peeples
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses (2014)
As: Bernie Pope
Vietnam vet Frank Vega now runs an East L.A. community center where he trains young boxers to survive in and out of the ring. But when his prize student falls in with the wrong crowd and turns up dead, Frank teams up with his pal Bernie to take matters into their own fists and prove that justice never gets old.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Craig Moss
Stars: Danny Trejo | Andrew Divoff | Danny Glover | Jacqueline Obradors | Jonathan Lipnicki
The Ninja Immovable Heart (2014)
As: Ex Director Matthew Reynolds
Reese, an elite member of a covert unit of Ninja Warriors, is captured. Being tortured for information, Reese recalls the lessons learned from his training in order to fight his way free and stop an evil conglomerate from arming a dangerous weapon.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Rob Baard | John Balazs
Stars: Danny Glover | Cassandra Gava | Rob Baard | Roger Neave
Chasing Shakespeare (2014)
As: William Ward
Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Norry Niven
Stars: Danny Glover | Ashley Bell | Graham Greene | Clayton Rohner | Chelsea Ricketts
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
As: Justice Thurgood Marshall
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Danny Glover | Ed Begley Jr. | Christopher Plummer | Frank Langella | Barry Levinson
Extraction (2013)
As: Harding
A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he must keep his target alive in order to catch a terrorist arms-dealer who is a threat to thousands of lives.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Tony Giglio
Stars: Sean Astin | Danny Glover | Jon Foo | Joanne Kelly | Falk Hentschel
Tula: The Revolt (2013)
As: Shinishi
'Tula, The Revolt' is an international English spoken feature length movie about the leader of the big slave uprising on the island of Curacao, a Dutch colony in 1795.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Jeroen Leinders
Stars: Danny Glover | Deobia Oparei | Jeroen Krabbé | Derek de Lint
Highland Park (2013)
As: Ed
A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Andrew Meieran
Stars: Billy Burke | Danny Glover | Deborah Ann Woll | Parker Posey | Michelle Forbes
Shuffleton's Barbershop (2013)
As: Charlie Shuffleton
Famous country singer Trey Cole is finally returning home after cruelly abandoning the town many years ago and never looking back, even when his brother died serving in the military. Now, realizing he's lost himself along the way, Trey remembers getting his first haircut in the cracked brown leather chair in Charlie's shop, and hopes to find guidance from the man who was a father to him when his own dad, ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Mark Jean
Stars: Brett Rice | Danny Glover | Kayla Ewell | Austin Stowell | Bryant Prince
Space Warriors (2013)
As: Commander Phillips
The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Sean McNamara
Stars: Booboo Stewart | Danny Glover | Mira Sorvino | Josh Lucas | Dermot Mulroney
The Shift (2013)
As: Floyd
The Shift is the story of one 12 hour night shift in the ER and the life and death decisions that have to be made. With the issue of euthanasia in the headlines this is a timely and compelling story.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Lee Cipolla
Stars: Danny Glover | Casey Fitzgerald | Leo Oliva | Genesis Ochoa | Sara Castro
The Bouquet (2013)
As: Reverend John
Two estranged sisters torn apart by their differences suddenly find themselves working together towards a common goal in this heartwarming drama...For years, overachiever Terri (Kristy Swanson) and her idealistic sister, Mandy (Alberta Mayne), have kept their distance from each other, as well as from their parents' struggling florist business. But when a tragic turn of events brings both women home, they ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Anne Wheeler
Stars: Danny Glover | Alberta Mayne | Kristy Swanson | Michael Shanks | Nicola Cavendish
Casting By (2012)
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Tom Donahue
Stars: Robert De Niro | Jeff Bridges | Robert Duvall | John Travolta | Clint Eastwood
The Lighthouse (2012)
As: Duncan
In 1972 two men and two women fell to the bottom of the old lighthouse. Carrie, Trip, Nick, Kevin, Samantha,Derek, and Jessica have decided to go on a camping trip culminating at the lighthouse itself. Things have a way of happening to this group of adventurers real or imaginary, they will find out.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Martin Glover
Stars: Kurt Angle | Byron Cherry | Byron Cherry | Andrew Martinet | Johnny Bussey
Shadows of Liberty (2012)
As: Himself
Shadows of Liberty presents the phenomenal true story of today's disintegrating freedoms within the U.S. media, and government, that they don't want you to see. The film takes an intrepid journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global media conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power. The overwhelming collective power of these firms ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Jean-Philippe Tremblay
Stars: Danny Glover | Charlie Rose | Barack Obama | David Simon | Julian Assange
Hannah's Law (2012)
As: Isom Dart
Hannah keeps the law in "the wickedest city on earth:" Dodge City, Kansas. with the help of young Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Stagecoach Mary.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Rachel Talalay
Stars: John Pyper-Ferguson | Ryan Kennedy | Sara Canning | Kimberly Elise | Greyston Holt
Time to Pay (2012)
As: Father Leonard
David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life, a murderous existence before he moved to America, where an accident took his memory and his sight. Under the wing of Don Michele, he was a chosen of the violent, Sicilian Cortello family...a family he ultimately betrayed. Now fleeing his ruthless New York City mafiosa existence as part of the family overseen by the ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Carlo Fusco
Stars: Danny Glover | Steven Bauer | Michael Madsen | Ervin Bejleri | Gabriele Arena
LUV (2012)
As: Arthur
Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Sheldon Candis
Stars: Charles S. Dutton | Danny Glover | Michael Rainey Jr. | Dennis Haysbert | Common
Donovan's Echo (2012)
As: Donovan Matheson
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jim Cliffe
Stars: Bruce Greenwood | Danny Glover | Sonja Bennett | Natasha Calis
Mysteria (2011)
As: Investigator
A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the center of a murder investigation involving a prominent politician's wife. The surrounding events feed him inspiration for his script.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Lucius C. Kuert
Stars: Michael Rooker | Billy Zane | Danny Glover | Robert Miano | Martin Landau
I Want to Be a Soldier (2011)
As: School Director
“I Want To Be A Soldier” is the story of Alex, an average 8 year old child who develops a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He starts to have communication problems with his parents and other children at school and becomes withdrawn, inventing two imaginary friends.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Christian Molina
Stars: Danny Glover | Robert Englund | Cassandra Gava | Cameron Antrobus | Josephine Barnes
Age of the Dragons (2011)
As: Ahab
Age of the Dragons is an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick. Set in a medieval realm where Captain Ahab and crew hunt dragons for the vitriol that powers their world, Ishmael, a charismatic harpooner and his friend Queequeg join their quest. Ahab's adopted daughter Rachel, beautiful and tough, runs the hunting vessel. Ahab's obsession to seek revenge on a great White Dragon ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Ryan Little
Stars: Vinnie Jones | Danny Glover | Larry Bagby | Corey Sevier | Sofia Pernas
Mooz-lum (2011)
As: Dean Francis
Thanks to a strict Muslim upbringing that largely shielded him from the outside world, Tariq's first year of college proves transformative. That is, until the 9/11 terrorist attacks invite growing suspicion and distrust from his angry classmates.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Qasim Basir
Stars: Evan Ross | Nia Long | Danny Glover | Summer Bishil
Son of Morning (2011)
As: Gabriel Peters
A young copywriter becomes the most famous man on the planet, overnight, when he is mistaken as the next messiah.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Yaniv Raz
Stars: Danny Glover | Stephen Root | Heather Graham | Lorraine Bracco | Joseph Cross
The Children's Republic (2011)
As: Dubem
In West Africa, there's a small country every adult abandoned. The children get organized and the Children's Republic becomes a stable and prosperous country. But the children can no longer grow up.
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Flora Gomes
Stars: Danny Glover | Peter Gudo | Hedviges Mamudo | Melanie de Vales Rafael | Joice Simbine
Down for Life (2010)
Based on a New York Times article depicting a single dramatic day in the life of a Latina gang leader in South Central L.A.
Directed by: Alan Jacobs
Stars: Danny Glover | Snoop Dogg | Laz Alonso | Kate del Castillo | Jessica Romero
Alpha and Omega (2010)
As: Winston (voice)
Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Anthony Bell | Ben Gluck
Stars: Danny Glover | Justin Long | Christina Ricci | Dennis Hopper | Hayden Panettiere
I'm Still Here (2010)
As: Himself
I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Casey Affleck
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Ben Stiller | Bruce Willis | Danny DeVito | Jack Nicholson
Legendary (2010)
As: Harry 'Red' Newman
A book-smart teenager joins his school's wrestling team as a way to reunite his surviving family members, who split apart after the death of his father, a college wrestling legend, 10 years ago.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Mel Damski
Stars: Patricia Clarkson | Danny Glover | Devon Graye | John Cena | Madeleine Martin
Dear Alice (2010)
As: Franzis
Very different lives, becomes interweaved during what seems like an ordinary day. Franzis Namazi is a newly arrived immigrant from Gambia to Sweden. He is about to give up on his little store selling African art. Karin Carlsson-Said is a lawyer who is about to enter a new important step in her career as a lawyer. Her husband Moses must send money to his hospitalized father in Uganda, but there are problems ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Stars: Danny Glover | Tuva Novotny | Stefan Sauk | Pierre Lindstedt | Ulf Brunnberg
Death at a Funeral (2010)
As: Uncle Russell
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies in from New York, broke but arrogant. To top it all off, a mysterious stranger wants a word with Aaron.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Neil LaBute
Stars: Zoe Saldana | Danny Glover | Peter Dinklage | James Marsden | Martin Lawrence
Five Minarets in New York (2010)
As: Marcus
Two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to find and bring back the dangerous Islamic leader codenamed "Dajjal", believed to be hiding in there. Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of Hadji Gumus, a well-respected Muslim scholar and family man who years before fled to the United States after being released from a Turkish prison, where he served ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Stars: Gina Gershon | Danny Glover | Haluk Bilginer | Robert Patrick | Mustafa Sandal
2012 (2009)
As: President Wilson
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer ...
Runtime: 158 min.
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Oliver Platt | Amanda Peet | Chiwetel Ejiofor | John Cusack | Thandie Newton
The Harimaya Bridge (2009)
As: Joseph Holder
The Harimaya Bridge is a drama about an American man who must travel to rural Japan to claim some important items belonging to his late son, from whom he was estranged. While there, he learns several secrets his son left behind.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Aaron Woolfolk
Stars: Misa Shimizu | Danny Glover | Saki Takaoka | Victor Grant | Bennet Guillory
Night Train (2009)
As: Miles
Two Passengers (Sobieski and Zahn) and the conductor (Glover), discovered that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they decide to keep for themselves...
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Brian King
Stars: Danny Glover | Togo Igawa | Matthias Schweighöfer | Steve Zahn | Leelee Sobieski
The People Speak (2009)
As: Himself
A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Chris Moore | Howard Zinn
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Viggo Mortensen | Rosario Dawson | Marisa Tomei | Sean Penn
Blindness (2008)
As: Man with black eye patch
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Stars: Danny Glover | Alice Braga | Gael García Bernal | Mark Ruffalo | Julianne Moore
Unstable Fables: Tortoise vs. Hare (2008)
As: Walter Tortoise (voice)
This story picks up a generation after the famous race between the Hare and the Tortoise. This time it's their kids' turn to compete, and they're about to escalate their family rivalry to ridiculous new levels.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Howard E. Baker | Arish Fyzee
Stars: Vivica A. Fox | Danny Glover | Keke Palmer | Jay Leno | Drake Bell
The Garden (2008)
As: Himself
From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Stars: Danny Glover | Martin Sheen | Daryl Hannah | Antonio Villaraigosa
Gospel Hill (2008)
As: John Malcolm
Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain civil rights activist. Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) is the former sheriff who never got to the bottom of the murder. Their paths begin to cross when a development corporation comes to town with plans to raze Julia's historic Gospel Hill.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Giancarlo Esposito
Stars: Danny Glover | Giancarlo Esposito | Taylor Kitsch | Angela Bassett | Julia Stiles
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
As: Mr. Fletcher
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Stars: Danny Glover | Mia Farrow | Jack Black | Yasiin Bey | Marcus Carl Franklin
Honeydripper (2007)
As: Tyrone Purvis
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Charles S. Dutton | Danny Glover | Brent Jennings | Yaya DaCosta | LisaGay Hamilton
Battle for Terra (2007)
As: President Chen (voice)
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Stars: Brian Cox | Danny Glover | Chris Evans | Evan Rachel Wood | James Garner
Shooter (2007)
As: Colonel Isaac Johnson
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why??
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Stars: Danny Glover | Elias Koteas | Kate Mara | Mark Wahlberg | Michael Peña
Poor Boy's Game (2007)
As: George
Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist neighborhood that created him. At the other end of town, the black community still wants revenge. The instrument of justice will be Ossie Paris, a devastatingly talented boxer who challenges ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Clément Virgo
Stars: Danny Glover | Rossif Sutherland | Flex Alexander | Laura Regan | K. C. Collins
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)
As: Father Elias
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.
Runtime: 161 min.
Directed by: Charles Burnett
Stars: Danny Glover | Carl Lumbly | Obed Emvula | Joel Haikali | Chrisjan Appollus
Dreamgirls (2006)
As: Marty Madison
Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Bill Condon
Stars: Danny Glover | Eddie Murphy | Jamie Foxx | Beyoncé Knowles | Jennifer Hudson
Barnyard (2006)
As: Miles the Mule (voice)
When the farmer's away, all the animals play, and sing, and dance. Eventually, though, someone has to step in and run things, a responsibility that ends up going to Otis, a carefree cow.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Steve Oedekerk
Stars: Sam Elliott | Danny Glover | Courteney Cox | Kevin James | Wanda Sykes
Bamako (2006)
As: Cow-boy
Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Abderrahmane Sissako
Stars: Aïssa Maïga | Balla Habib Dembélé | Maimouna Hélène Diarra | Djénéba Koné | Tiécoura Traoré
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (2006)
Get ready for all of the laughs, adventure and hip-hopping good times in this all-new imaginative and modern retelling of Uncle Remus' best-loved tales. Parents and kids alike will delight in the escapades of the most mischievous and clever Brer Rabbit as he gleefully outwits Brer Fox, Brer Bear and a whole cast of other critters!
Runtime: 71 min.
Directed by: Byron Vaughns
Stars: Danny Glover | Gary Anthony Williams | Nick Cannon | Wayne Brady
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
As: Ken Hollister
The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Brian Robbins
Stars: Danny Glover | Spencer Breslin | Kristin Davis | Tim Allen | Robert Downey Jr.
The Exonerated (2006)
As: David
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Bob Balaban
Stars: Brian Dennehy | Danny Glover | Susan Sarandon | Aidan Quinn | Delroy Lindo
The Peace! (2005)
As: Himself
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and community organizers are getting tough with their questions about peace -- and that's no oxymoron. To shed light on the answers, filmmakers Gabriele Zamparini and Lorenzo Meccoli record a variety of speakers, including Noam Chomsky, Desmond Tutu, Scott Ritter, Pete ...
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Gabriele Zamparini
Stars: Danny Glover | Harry Belafonte | Angela Davis | Greg Palast | Amy Goodman
Manderlay (2005)
As: Wilhelm
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Danny Glover | Bryce Dallas Howard | Michaël Abiteboul | Isaach De Bankolé
Missing in America (2005)
As: Jake Neely
A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Gabrielle Savage Dockterman | Victor Landrie | Gordon MacDonald
Stars: Danny Glover | Linda Hamilton | Ron Perlman | David Strathairn | Zoe Weizenbaum
The Cookout (2004)
As: Judge Crowley
When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep things real, he decides to throw a barbeque at his place -- just like the ones his family used to have. But when you have new and old friends, family, agents, and product reps in the same house, things are bound to get crazy.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Lance Rivera
Stars: Tim Meadows | Jenifer Lewis | Jonathan Silverman | Ja Rule | Eve
Saw (2004)
As: Detective David Tapp
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: James Wan
Stars: Danny Glover | Cary Elwes | Monica Potter | Michael Emerson | Ken Leung
Good fences (2003)
As: Tom Spader
Set in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to moves his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
Stars: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Marie V. Cruz | Munro Chambers
The Real Eve (2002)
As: Narrator
The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The mitochondrial DNA of one prehistoric woman, who lived in Africa, has according to this theory been passed down from generation to generation over a span of 150,000 years, supplying the "chemical energy" to all humankind.
Runtime: 103 min.
Stars: Danny Glover
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
As: Henry Sherman
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow | Ben Stiller | Anjelica Huston | Gene Hackman | Luke Wilson
3 A.M. (2001)
As: Hershey
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Lee Davis
Stars: Michelle Rodriguez | Danny Glover | Sarita Choudhury | Arjun G. Awtramani | Sergej Trifunović
Boesman and Lena (2000)
As: Boesman
Intense love and hate bring a man and woman through personal tragedy.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Berry
Stars: Danny Glover | Angela Bassett
Bàttu (2000)
Toronto International Film Festival 2000
Directed by: Cheick Oumar Sissoko
Stars: Danny Glover | Eriq Ebouaney | Isaach De Bankolé | Makena Diop | Juliette Ba
Freedom Song (2000)
As: Will Walker
Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Stars: Michael Jai White | Loretta Devine | Danny Glover | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Vicellous Reon Shannon
Scared Straight! 20 Years Later (1999)
As: host
Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago, by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Arnold Shapiro
Stars: Danny Glover
Our Friend, Martin (1999)
As: Train Conductor (voice)
What begins as a routine class project for a diverse group of sixth-graders turns into a magical, time-traveling adventure they'll never forget! Authentic historical footage of Martin Luther King Jr. is blended with colorful animation as the students learn about - and actually meet - the civil rights leader who challenged all Americans to turn his dream of freedom into reality. Produced in association with ...
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Robert Brousseau | Vincenzo Trippetti
Stars: LeVar Burton | Lucas Black | Angela Bassett | Ed Asner | Theodore Borders
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
As: Jethro
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them at odds, as one becomes the ruler of the most powerful empire on earth, and the other the chosen leader of his people! Their final ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Brenda Chapman | Steve Hickner | Simon Wells
Stars: Val Kilmer | Ralph Fiennes | Sandra Bullock | Michelle Pfeiffer | Patrick Stewart
Beloved (1998)
As: Paul D Garner
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Runtime: 172 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Danny Glover | Thandie Newton | Albert Hall | Oprah Winfrey | LisaGay Hamilton
Antz (1998)
As: Barbatus (voice)
In this animated hit, a neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Eric Darnell | Tim Johnson
Stars: Danny Glover | Dan Aykroyd | Woody Allen | Gene Hackman | Anne Bancroft
Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson (1998)
As: Himself - Narrator (voice)
An in-depth, award-winning documentary on the life and music of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Mixing rare photographs, exclusive interviews, and dramatic re-creations, director Peter Meyer presents a compelling portrait of this enigmatic figure.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Peter Meyer
Stars: Danny Glover
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
As: (scenes deleted)
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Stars: Regina King | Taye Diggs | Whoopi Goldberg | Suzzanne Douglas | Angela Bassett
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)
As: Roger Murtaugh
In the combustible action franchise's final installment, maverick detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh square off against Asian mobster Wah Sing Ku, who's up to his neck in slave trading and counterfeit currency. With help from gumshoe Leo Getz and smart-aleck rookie cop Lee Butters, Riggs and Murtaugh aim to take down Ku and his gang.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Joe Pesci | Danny Glover | Jet Li | Rene Russo
Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
As: Sgt. Washington Wyatt
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Charles Haid
Stars: Mykelti Williamson | Danny Glover | Glynn Turman | Carl Lumbly | Lamont Bentley
The Rainmaker (1997)
As: Richter Tyrone Kipler
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Matt Damon | Mary Kay Place | Danny DeVito | Claire Danes | Jon Voight
Switchback (1997)
As: Bob Goodall
FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Jeb Stuart
Stars: R. Lee Ermey | Danny Glover | Brent Hinkley | Dennis Quaid | Claudia Stedelin
Wild America (1997)
As: Bigfoot the Mountain Man
Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, b ears and moose.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: William Dear
Stars: Danny Glover | Frances Fisher | Devon Sawa | Jonathan Taylor Thomas | Scott Bairstow
Gone Fishin' (1997)
As: Gus Green
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Christopher Cain
Stars: Joe Pesci | Danny Glover | Rosanna Arquette | Lynn Whitfield | Willie Nelson
America's Dream (1996)
As: Silas (segment "Long Black Song")
Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each of which is directed by a respected black director.
Directed by: Bill Duke | Paris Barclay | Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Stars: Danny Glover | Wesley Snipes | Tate Donovan | Lorraine Toussaint | Norman D. Golden II
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities (1995)
As: Himself
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Kevin Bourque | James Hong
Stars: Jalal Merhi | James Hong | Billy Blanks | Cynthia Rothrock | Loren Avedon
Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
As: Capt. Sam Cahill
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Simon Wincer
Stars: Danny Glover | Ray Liotta | Doug E. Doug | Corin Nemec | Denis Leary
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
HBO documentary about movies
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Chuck Workman
Stars: Candice Bergen | Warren Beatty | Robert Altman | George Burns | Peter Coyote
Angels in the Outfield (1994)
As: George Knox
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: William Dear
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Brenda Fricker | Danny Glover | Christopher Lloyd | Tony Danza
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
As: Jerry
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Tim Hunter
Stars: Danny Glover | Ving Rhames | Matt Dillon | Nina Siemaszko | Rick Aviles
Bopha! (1993)
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family (including long-suffering wife Alfre Woodard) and what he believes is his duty.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Morgan Freeman
Stars: Danny Glover | Malcolm McDowell | Maynard Eziashi | Alfre Woodard | Marius Weyers
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
As: Roger Murtaugh
Archetypal buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh are back for another round of high-stakes action, this time setting their collective sights on bringing down a former Los Angeles police lieutenant turned black market weapons dealer. Lorna Cole joins as the beautiful yet hardnosed internal affairs sergeant who catches Riggs's eye.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Stuart Wilson | Joe Pesci | Danny Glover | Rene Russo
Grand Canyon (1991)
As: Simon
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Stars: Danny Glover | Mary-Louise Parker | Kevin Kline | Mary McDonnell | Steve Martin
Pure Luck (1991)
As: Raymond Campanella
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Nadia Tass
Stars: Danny Glover | Sheila Kelley | Martin Short | Harry Shearer | Sam Wanamaker
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
As: Easy Money
A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Bill Duke
Stars: Forest Whitaker | Danny Glover | Robin Givens | Gregory Hines | T. K. Carter
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
As: Cmdr. Frank 'Dooke' Camparelli
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: John Milius
Stars: Tom Sizemore | Willem Dafoe | Danny Glover | Brad Johnson | Rosanna Arquette
Predator 2 (1990)
As: Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
Ten years after a band of mercenaries first battled a vicious alien, the invisible creature from another world has returned to Earth -- and this time, it's drawn to the gang-ruled and ravaged city of Los Angeles. When it starts murdering drug dealers, detective-lieutenant Mike Harrigan and his police force set out to capture the creature, ignoring warnings from a mysterious government agent to stay away.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Stars: Danny Glover | Rubén Blades | Gary Busey | Kevin Peter Hall | María Conchita Alonso
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
As: Harry
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Charles Burnett
Stars: Mary Alice | Danny Glover | Paul Butler | DeVaughn Nixon | Reina King
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
As: Sergeant Roger Murtaugh
In the opening chase, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh stumble across a trunk full of Krugerrands. They follow the trail to a South African diplomat who's using his immunity to conceal a smuggling operation. When he plants a bomb under Murtaugh's toilet, the action explodes!
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Joe Pesci | Danny Glover | Joss Ackland | Derrick O'Connor
Dead Man Out (1989)
As: Dr. Alex Marsh
A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Richard Pearce
Stars: Danny Glover | Samuel L. Jackson | Rubén Blades
A Raisin in the Sun (1989)
As: Walter Lee Younger
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Runtime: 171 min.
Stars: Danny Glover | Starletta DuPois | John Fiedler | Stephen Henderson | Lou Ferguson
Bat*21 (1988)
As: Capt. Bartholomew Clark
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Peter Markle
Stars: David Marshall Grant | Danny Glover | Clayton Rohner | Gene Hackman | Jerry Reed
Mandela (1987)
As: Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Philip Saville
Stars: Allan Corduner | Danny Glover | Alfre Woodard | Warren Clarke
Lethal Weapon (1987)
As: Sergeant Roger Murtaugh
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson | Danny Glover | Gary Busey | Mitchell Ryan | Tom Atkins
The Color Purple (1985)
As: Albert
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister ...
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Margaret Avery | Oprah Winfrey | Akosua Busia
Silverado (1985)
As: Malachi 'Mal' Johnson
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Stars: Brian Dennehy | Danny Glover | Scott Glenn | Kevin Kline | Kevin Costner
Witness (1985)
As: McFee
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Stars: Lukas Haas | Harrison Ford | Kelly McGillis | Josef Sommer | Jan Rubeš
And the Children Shall Lead (1985)
As: William
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Michael Pressman
Stars: Danny Glover | LeVar Burton | Whitman Mayo | Denise Nicholas | Beah Richards
Places in the Heart (1984)
As: Moze
In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Benton
Stars: Ed Harris | Sally Field | Danny Glover | John Malkovich | Lindsay Crouse
Iceman (1984)
As: Loomis
An anthropologist is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who has been frozen in a block of ice for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, scientists discover to their amazement a real possibility to revive him and their attempt to resuscitate the "iceman" proves successful.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Timothy Hutton | Josef Sommer | David Strathairn | Lindsay Crouse | John Lone
Memorial Day (1983)
As: Willie Monroe
An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Bonnie Bedelia | Robert Walden | Mike Farrell | Keith Michell | Shelley Fabares
Deadly Drifter (1982)
As: Jojo / Roland
A self-styled "urban guerrilla" in Greenwich Village is sent on various assignments across the country by a mysterious "commander."
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Eli Hollander
Stars: Danny Glover | Scott Beach | Peter Coyote | Jim Haynie
Chu Chu & the Philly Flash (1981)
As: Morgan
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash is a 1981 comedy film starring Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Ruth Buzzi, and Danny Aiello. It was released in 1981 by 20th Century Fox. Arkin plays a down-his-luck former baseball player and Burnett plays a Carmen Miranda-style performer. The film was panned by critics and was not a box office success. Many of the scenes, particularly the exterior scenes of "Chu ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Danny Aiello | Adam Arkin | Carol Burnett | Alan Arkin | Jack Warden
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
As: Inmate
Escape from Alcatraz tells the story of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once - by three men never heard of again.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Don Siegel
Stars: Patrick McGoohan | Fred Ward | Clint Eastwood | Roberts Blossom | Jack Thibeau
Dreadtown ()
As: Narrator
Dreadtown tells the story of British reggae group Steel Pulse, who emerged from the racial turbulence of 1970s Britain to become one of the world's most loved and enduring reggae bands.
Directed by: Yoni Gal
Stars: David Hinds | Selwyn Brown | Sidney Mills | Clifford 'Moonie' Pusey | Amlak Tafari
Press Play ()
A young woman has a chance to save the love of her life, when she discovers that the mix-tape they made together can transport her back in time.
Directed by: Greg Björkman
Stars: Danny Glover | Clara Rugaard | Lewis Pullman | Lyrica Okano