8 Movies Starring Kimberly Elise

Set It Off

Set It Off

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-11-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (9107 Reviews)

Director:

F. Gary Gray

Cast:

Writer:

Takashi Bufford (story)

Takashi Bufford (screenplay)

Kate Lanier (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.

The Loretta Claiborne Story

The Loretta Claiborne Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-01-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (227 Reviews)

Director:

Lee Grant

Genres:

DramaSport

Fullplot:

A disabled young girl from a disadvantaged home setting develops self esteem and success in life through Special Olympics competition. Based on the true story of Loretta Claiborne.

John Q

John Q

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-15

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(91800 Reviews)

Director:

Nick Cassavetes

Fullplot:

John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-10-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (778 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Schultz

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

T.D. Jakes (novel)

Stan Foster (screenplay)

Christine Swanson (revised screenplay)

Fullplot:

An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-02-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (10034 Reviews)

Director:

Darren Grant

Cast:

Writer:

Tyler Perry (play)

Tyler Perry

Fullplot:

Helen McCarter has everything a woman wants: a nice house and rich husband. However after her husband Charles throws her out of the house after admitting to an affair a distraught Helen turns to her mother, grandmother Madea and cousin Brian who take her in and turn back to God. Helen learns for the first time in her life to stand up on her two feet and is ready to remove herself from her relationship with Charles and move on with Orlando. But when her husband is almost killed by a vengeful client, Helen wonders if she has the heart to forgive him despite everything.

Pride

Pride

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-03-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (5364 Reviews)

Director:

Sunu Gonera

Cast:

Writer:

Kevin Michael Smith (screenplay)

Michael Gozzard (screenplay)

J. Mills Goodloe (screenplay)

Norman Vance Jr. (screenplay)

Kevin Michael Smith (story)

Michael Gozzard (story)

Fullplot:

The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-02-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

86 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (5087 Reviews)

Director:

Thomas Carter

Fullplot:

Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.

For Colored Girls

For Colored Girls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-11-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (5899 Reviews)

Director:

Tyler Perry

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Tyler Perry (screenplay)

Ntozake Shange (play)

Fullplot:

The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors performing the collection of 20 poems, the movie has given each of the 20 characters names. Each of the poems deal with intense issues that particularly impact women in a thought-provoking commentary on what it means to be a female of color in the world.

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