Mahershala Ali
Biography: Mahershala Ali (/məˈhɜːrʃələ/ mə-HUR-shə-lə; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked him among the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. After pursuing an MFA degree from New York University, Ali began his career as a regular on television series Crossing Jordan (2001–02) and Threat Matrix (2003–04), before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 (2004–07). His first major film role was in the David Fincher-directed fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He gained wider attention for supporting roles in the final two films of the original The Hunger Games film series and in House of Cards, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as a drug dealer in the drama Moonlight (2016) and as Don Shirley in the comedy-drama Green Book (2018). He is the first Black actor to win two Academy Awards in the same category and the second Black actor to win multiple acting Oscars. Ali won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for executive producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020). In 2019, he played a troubled police officer in the third season of the HBO anthology crime series True Detective, and in 2020, he starred in the second season of the Hulu comedy-drama series Ramy. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for both performances. Ali has also played Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in the first season of the Netflix series Luke Cage (2016) and voiced Aaron Davis in the animated films Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mahershala Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: February 16, 1974
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008-12-25
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Overview: Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Eternals
2021-11-03
Eternals
Overview: The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. When an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows, they are forced to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-03
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Leave the World Behind
2023-11-22
Leave the World Behind
Overview: A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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Predators
2010-07-03
Predators
Overview: A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-03
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The Wronged Man
2010-10-07
The Wronged Man
Overview: Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an unjustly accused man and cements a life-long friendship.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Overview: The third installment in the Spider-Verse franchise. Plot TBA.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023-05-31
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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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The Place Beyond the Pines
2013-03-20
The Place Beyond the Pines
Overview: A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-20
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014-11-19
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Overview: Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015-11-18
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Overview: With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-18
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Go for Sisters
2013-11-08
Go for Sisters
Overview: Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer — just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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Blade
Blade
Overview: An upcoming film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's (MCU) sixth Phase and part of The Multiverse Saga, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Plot TBA.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
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Wildwood
Wildwood
Overview: Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows into the forest’s depths, and she – along with her hapless classmate, Curtis – is going to get him back. Prue might think she’s too old for fairytales, but she’s just found herself at the center of one. One filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
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Stand
2023-02-03
Stand
Overview: Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball star and social justice activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Born Chris Jackson, he overcame tremendous adversity to reach the NBA and found his true calling when he converted to Islam. His decision not to stand for the national anthem, however, turned him from prodigy to pariah. Told candidly by Abdul-Rauf himself more than 20 years later it’s the remarkable story of one man who kept the faith and paved the way for a social justice movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-03
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Supremacy
2014-06-12
Supremacy
Overview: 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 black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-12
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Free State of Jones
2016-06-24
Free State of Jones
Overview: In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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77 Blackout
77 Blackout
Overview: In 1977, five rogue police officers formulate a plan to rob three criminal strongholds—the Hong Kong Triads, the Italian Mafia, and the Harlem Mob—all in one night. When a blackout sweeps the city the night of the robbery, the crew is forced to navigate a hellish landscape as years of being overworked and underpaid force each of them to confront their own morality.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
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Kicks
2016-09-09
Kicks
Overview: When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Jurassic World Rebirth
2025-07-02
Jurassic World Rebirth
Overview: Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-07-02
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Hidden Figures
2016-12-10
Hidden Figures
Overview: The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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Moonlight
2016-10-21
Moonlight
Overview: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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The Realest Real
2016-09-12
The Realest Real
Overview: The Realest Real is a humorous exploration of the fickle and instant world of the internet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-12
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Alita: Battle Angel
2019-01-31
Alita: Battle Angel
Overview: When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-31
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Gubagude Ko
2016-06-16
Gubagude Ko
Overview: A man witnesses a young woman's rape and experiences the guilt of his inaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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Roxanne Roxanne
2017-01-22
Roxanne Roxanne
Overview: The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend, as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-22
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Crossing Over
2009-02-10
Crossing Over
Overview: Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-10
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Overview: Set during the early 1900s in South Dakota, Rachel and Isaac Dupree, an African American couple, raise their family on an isolated ranch in the Badlands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Green Book
2018-11-16
Green Book
Overview: Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018-12-06
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Overview: Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-06
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All Signs of Death
All Signs of Death
Overview: Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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Umi's Heart
2008-11-30
Umi's Heart
Overview: The story of two brothers and their attempts to broach the difficult subject of religious conversion.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-30
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The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015-03-06
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Overview: Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes that look at a variety of subjects, from casting to visual effects. - Hope and Rebellion: Continuing the Saga - Designing Dystopia: Visual Aesthetic - Rebels and Warriors: The Cast - Fusing Form and Function: Costume, Make-Up and Hair - Fighting the System: Shooting on Location - D13: Rebellion Tactics: Stunts and Special Effects - Perfecting Panem: The Post-Production Process
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Taste the Revolution
2003-03-28
Taste the Revolution
Overview: Two aspiring filmmakers chronicle the story of a charismatic revolutionary, Mac Laslow, and the group of disillusioned college students drawn together one summer to change the world. But without a unifying direction or clear goals, the movement descends into chaos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Predators: The Chosen
2010-10-19
Predators: The Chosen
Overview: A brief profile of the main characters of Predators movie who parashooted onto the planet. The short film was released on the Predators (2010) Blu-ray.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010-10-19
Predators: Moments of Extraction
Overview: Moments of Extraction is an animated short film shows what each character of Predators movie was doing when they were captured by the Predators. Created exclusively for the Blu-ray release of Predators (2010) movie.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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Swan Song
2021-12-17
Swan Song
Overview: In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-17
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Between the World and Me
2020-11-21
Between the World and Me
Overview: Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-21
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The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009-05-05
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
Overview: A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Fincher's film is documented here, from the project's attachment to numerous other directors during the 1990s, to its shoot in 2006 and 2007 in New Orleans, to its complex, CGI-intensive postproduction process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-05
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Adnis
2017-08-03
Adnis
Overview: A boxer trains with an old man in vacant building.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-03
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