Biography: Daniel Kaluuya (/kəˈluːjə/; born 24 February 1989) is a British actor and filmmaker. His work encompasses both screen and stage, and his accolades include an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2021, he was named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Kaluuya began his acting career as a teenager in improvisational theatre. He played Posh Kenneth in the first two seasons of the television series Skins (2007–2009); he also co-wrote some of the episodes. Kaluuya drew praise for his leading performance in Sucker Punch at the Royal Court Theatre in 2010. He went on to gain attention for his television roles in Psychoville (2009–2011), The Fades (2011), and the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" (2011). He also had supporting roles in the films Johnny English Reborn (2011), Kick-Ass 2 (2013), and Sicario (2015). In 2017, Kaluuya had his breakthrough starring in Jordan Peele's horror film Get Out, which garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. This was followed by roles in Ryan Coogler's superhero film Black Panther (2018), Steve McQueen's crime drama Widows (2018), Peele's horror film Nope (2022), and Sony Pictures Animation's animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). For his portrayal of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the biopic Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), he won the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has since co-directed the drama The Kitchen (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Kaluuya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: February 24, 1989
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2021-11-21
Overview: Joining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a unique and special night at the legendary London Palladium, where she performs her chart-topping single Easy On Me, as well as tracks from her new album, 30.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-21
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Overview: The third installment in the Spider-Verse franchise. Plot TBA.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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2013-03-15
Overview: When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-15
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2023-05-31
Overview: After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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Overview: Plot unknown. Feature film based on the 90s children show "Barney."
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Original Language: en
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2013-01-16
Overview: Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-16
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2011-08-23
Overview: Interspersed with a commentary by a female narrator,who at times assumes their roles,the father,mother and daughter and son of a black,South London family commence their day and we follow them through it in all its mundanity until it climaxes in a random act of violence,killing one of the family and taking up the after-math.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-23
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2010-10-31
Overview: Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiatric hospital. Does the ghost of evil governess Edwina Kenchington still walk the empty corridors? What other horrors lie within these crumbling walls?
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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2015-09-17
Overview: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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2006-04-26
Overview: Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-26
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2010-06-25
Overview: A young woman is followed home by a stranger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-25
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2017-12-01
Overview: To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood's best-known thriller and horror films, Cockburn makes familiar noises frightening and leaves us wondering... What's that sound? And why won't it stop?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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2010-08-11
Overview: When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-11
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2017-05-23
Overview: A quick look at the movie's structure, similar films, crafting a thriller/horror film in Peele's voice, issues of race in the film, Peele's work as director, themes, and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-23
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2017-02-24
Overview: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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2018-02-13
Overview: King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-13
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2008-01-08
Overview: The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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2011-09-15
Overview: The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives word that the Chinese premier has become the target of some high-powered killers, it falls on Johnny English to save the day. Armed with the latest high-tech weaponry and gadgets that would make even James Bond jealous, the once-disgraced agent uncovers evidence of a massive conspiracy involving some of the world's most powerful organisations, and vows to redeem his tarnished reputation by stopping the killers before they can strike.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-15
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2013-07-17
Overview: After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother Fucker — only the blade-wielding Hit-Girl can prevent their annihilation.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-17
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2018-11-06
Overview: A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-06
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2017-06-04
Overview: A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-04
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2017-12-07
Overview: Horror films dominated the cultural conversation in 2017. From the surprise hit “Get Out” to the movie adaption of “It” to the campy “Happy Death Day,” scary movies had an unusual hold on the collective imagination during that year. Maybe it's because reality was pretty horrifying, too. To punctuate the end of a hair-raising year, The New York Times Magazine asked ten actors who gave the best performances to play a series of eerie roles.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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2019-11-27
Overview: While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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2020-12-04
Overview: The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance.
Genres: Drama Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-04
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2014-04-11
Overview: When three fidelity phobic misfits find themselves in the same cafe, their love and hate for all things romance related make them far more similar than they think.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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2021-02-12
Overview: Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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2009-04-11
Overview: A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Thriller Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-11
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Overview: Follows Esso, who is caught in a deadly feud and on the verge of expulsion when he realizes he has an unexpected gift: access to a world where he can see glimpses of the past and the future. A generation away, Rhia is walking to football practice in 2035, unaware that the mysterious stranger she's about to meet desperately needs her help to avert a bullet fired fifteen years ago.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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2007-11-23
Overview: 18 year-old Rene returns to West London to track down his ex-sweetheart. But why is there a £150 price on his head?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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2020-10-07
Overview: When stand-up comedian Jay prolongs his flirtatious post-show drinks with fellow stand-up June he misses his last train home, forcing a more intimate exploration of himself than expected. Can he resist the temptation to escape his reality for a night or stay faithful to the growing number of people waiting for him at home?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-07
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2022-07-20
Overview: Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-20
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2021-03-25
Overview: An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. At the heart of the documentary is a series of astonishing interviews with past activists, many of whom are speaking for the first time about what it was really like to be involved in the British Black Power movement, bringing to life one of the key cultural revolutions in the history of the nation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-25
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2023-05-09
Overview: Writing, pre-production and the challenges of crafting a sequel to a game-changing film, as told by the filmmakers who worked so hard to push Across the Spider-Verse several steps farther without losing the magic of the first entry in the series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-09
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