Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr.


Filmography

1. Life in a Year

Life in a Year
Drama Romance Coming-of-Age Drama Bittersweet Romance
6.2
20201h 47minUnited States

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.


2. The Butler

The Butler
Drama Historical Drama
7.2
20132h 12minUnited States

Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually striking out on his own, Cecil becomes a hotel valet of such efficiency and discreteness in the 1950s that he becomes a butler in the White House itself. There, Cecil would serve numerous US Presidents over the decades as a passive witness of history with the American Civil Rights Movement gaining momentum even as his family has troubles of its own. As his wife, Gloria, struggles with alcoholism and his defiant eldest son, Louis, strives for a just world, Cecil must decide whether he should take action in his own way.


3. Life of a King

Life of a King
Drama Coming-of-Age Drama
6.9
20131h 41minUnited States

The true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.


4. Red Tails

Red Tails
Drama Action Adventure History War
5.9
20122h 5minUnited States, Czechia

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.


5. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Drama Historical Drama
7.4
20091h 26minUnited States

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.


6. American Gangster

American Gangster
Drama Crime Organized Crime
7.8
20072h 37minUnited States

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.


7. Radio

Radio
Drama Family Drama
6.9
20031h 49minUnited States

In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him. Soon, Radio is Jones' loyal assistant, and he becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School. But things start to sour when Coach Jones begins taking guff from parents and fans who feel that his devotion to Radio is getting in the way of the team's quest for a championship.


8. Rat Race

Rat Race
Adventure Comedy Globetrotting Adventure Ensemble Comedy
6.5
20011h 52minCanada, United States

In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.


9. Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor
War Romance History Action World War II
6.3
20013h 3minUnited States

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.


10. Men of Honor

Men of Honor
Drama Historical Drama
7.2
20002h 9minUnited States

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.