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  • Ride With The Devil
  • Ride With The Devil review by A customer from England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Maguire Rides Out 20 February 2005
    ...an Civil War. Beautifully filmed. EXcellent performances from Tobey Maguire and Jeffrey Wright. Recommend. ...   Read customer review
  • Boycott
  • Boycott review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Very impressive, and this is only a TV movie...... 1 August 2004
    ...Jeffrey Wright is perfectly cast here and his King speeches are the highlight of the film. The performances, soundtrack and look of the film all flow together well....   Read customer review
  • Basquiat
  • Basquiat review by StuJisHuge from Mariana
    Rated - 5.0 stars Fantastic, beautiful, incredibly Indie 2 September 2010
    ... it myself and watched it over and over. One of THE great casts in cinema. With Jeffrey Wright's best on screen performance by far, David Bowie in hypnotic form and Michael W...   Read customer review

Jeffrey Wright - filmography


  • The Ides of March on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  George Clooney,  Marisa Tomei
    Director: George Clooney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 27,355 members
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  • The Ides Of March - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Ryan Gosling,  George Clooney,  Marisa Tomei
    Director: George Clooney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Political drama directed by George Clooney and starring Ryan Gosling as an idealistic young press secretary who gets caught up in the cynicism of a modern day election campaign. Based on a play by Beau Willimon, the film finds Stephen Myers (Gosling) working for progressive candidate Governor Mike ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10,285 members
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  • Source Code on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Michelle Monaghan,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Duncan Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on a mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier and who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago. A top-secret program, named "Source Code", allows Colter to exist briefly as another man ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 74,510 members
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  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sandra Bullock,  John Goodman
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,769 members
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  • W. - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Josh Brolin,  James Cromwell,  Ellen Burstyn
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd president to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,453 members
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  • W. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Josh Brolin,  James Cromwell,  Ellen Burstyn
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. In an unprecedented undertaking, acclaimed director Oliver Stone is bringing the life of our 43rd president to the big screen as only he can. W takes viewers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 18,026 members
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  • Quantum of Solace on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Daniel Craig,  Olga Kurylenko,  Mathieu Amalric
    Director: Marc Forster
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Quantum Of Solace continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (Daniel Craig) in Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (Judi Dench) interrogate Mr White (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 68,960 members
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  • Chicago 10 on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Roy Scheider,  Hank Azaria,  Jeffrey Wright
    Director: Brett Morgan
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Documentary tracing the protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic Party Convention. Incorporating newsreel footage of the day along with CGI animation, director Brett Morgen tells the story of the anti-war protests and the eight leaders who were charged with inciting a riot. Nick Nolte and Mark ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 43 members
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  • The Invasion - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Jackson Bond,  Jeremy Northam,  Jeffrey Wright
    Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. The mysterious crash of a space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington D.C. psychiatrist Carol ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,427 members
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  • The Invasion on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Daniel Craig,  Jeremy Northam
    Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    As an alien virus sweeps the planet, a Washington D.C psychiatrist (Kidman) thinks she has discovered the origin of the infection. In a desperate attempt to protect her son from certain death, she enlists the help of a colleague (Craig) to help her solve the mystery...
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 37,316 members
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  • Die Hard 4.0 on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Timothy Olyphant,  Maggie Q
    Director: Len Wiseman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The much anticipated fourth entry in the "Die Hard" legend sees John McClane (Willis) taking on an Internet-based terrorist organization who is systematically shutting down the United States.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 87,142 members
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  • Die Hard 4.0 - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Maggie Q,  Bruce Willis,  Mary Elizabeth Winstead
    Director: Len Wiseman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Time to pull on the vest one more time as Bruce Willis reprises his role of John McClane, everyday NY cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Set in Washington DC, this fourth instalment of the franchise, finds McClane routinely asked to bring in a computer hacker, Matt ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,336 members
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  • Blackout (2007)
    Starring: Zoe Saldana,  Jeffrey Wright,  Melvin Van Peebles
    Director: Jerry LaMothe
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on real events following a power blackout which affected 45 million people in America's Northeastern states. Inside a small forgotten Brooklyn neighbourhood, it examines the nature of man, to be able to take advantage of his own fellow man, in times of weakness and vulnerability.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 23 members
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  • Casino Royale - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Daniel Craig,  Judi Dench,  Jeffrey Wright
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    CASINO ROYALE introduces JAMES BOND before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00" status.Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Madagascar, where he is to spy on a terrorist, MOLLAKA (Sebastien ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 9,086 members
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  • Lady in the Water on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard,  Paul Giamatti,  Jeffrey Wright
    Director: M. Night Shyamalan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A modest building manager named Cleveland Heep rescues a mysterious young woman from danger and discovers she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 19,491 members
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  • Syriana - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Alexander Siddig,  Amanda Peet,  George Clooney
    Director: Stephen Gaghan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Political thriller unfolding against the intrigues and corruption of the global oil industry. As a career CIA operative (George Clooney) begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to, an up-and-coming oil broker (Matt Damon) faces an unimaginable family tragedy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,434 members
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  • Syriana on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Alexander Siddig,  Amanda Peet,  George Clooney
    Director: Stephen Gaghan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    From the players brokering back-room deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, a political thriller with multiple storylines that weave together showing the human consequences of the fierce pursuit of wealth and power. As a career CIA operative begins to uncover ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 64,322 members
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  • Broken Flowers on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Frances Conroy,  Sharon Stone
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The resolutely single Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don yet again resigns himself to being alone and left to his own devices. Instead, he is compelled to reflect on his past when he receives by mail a mysterious pink letter. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 30,857 members
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  • The Manchurian Candidate on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Liev Schreiber,  Jon Voigt
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jonathan Demme directs this updated remake of John Frankenheimer's classic 1962 political thriller, based on the novel by Richard Condon. Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) fought together in the Gulf War. A few years on, helped along by his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 68,866 members
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  • Boycott on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Reg E. Cathey,  Carmen Ejogo,  Shawn Michael Howard
    Director: Clark Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A dramatisation of the historic events which took place in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. When middle-aged black woman Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, she finds herself thrown in jail and charged under the State's segregation laws. This causes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 186 members
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  • Shaft on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Samuel L. Jackson,  Josef Sommer,  Richard Roundtree
    Director: John Singleton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Remake of the 1971 blaxploitation classic with Samuel L. Jackson taking over from Richard Roundtree in the title role. When waitress Diane (Toni Collette) sees ultra-rich playboy Wade (Christian Bale) murder a young black man outside a nightclub, she knows that she will be next and promptly goes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 6,064 members
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  • Ride With The Devil on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jewel,  Jeffrey Wright,  Tobey Maguire
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Ang Lee and writer-producer James Schamus turn the spotlight on an often overlooked aspect of American history in this, their sixth film together. The outbreak of the civil war causes a rift in the Roedel family as young Jake (Tobey Maguire) goes against the wishes of his Unionist father ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,009 members
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  • Critical Care on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Wallace Shawn,  Harvey Atkin,  Helen Mirren
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When an idealistic young doctor, Dr Werner Ernst, takes on the case of a wealthy, terminally ill patient, he finds himself getting involved in more than just medicine. The two daughers of the patient cannot agree over the fate of their father, but Dr Ernst only wants the best for his patient, that ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 171 members
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  • Basquiat on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Claire Forlani,  Paul Bartel,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Julian Schnabel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,310 members
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Jeffrey Wright facts

5 most recent films

Broken City - 3.0 stars
Broken City - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Source Code - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Ides of March - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Casino Royale - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Casino Royale - 4.0 stars
Source Code - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Source Code - 3.5 stars
Die Hard 4.0 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Chicago 10 - 2.5 stars
Blackout - 3.0 stars
Broken City - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Critical Care - 2.5 stars
Crime and Punishment in Suburbia - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Daniel Craig - 7 times - show films
Paul Giamatti - 6 times - show films
George Clooney - 6 times - show films
Vera Farmiga - 5 times - show films
Jesper Christensen - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

M. Night Shyamalan - 4 times - show films
Jonathan Demme - 4 times - show films
Oliver Hirschbiegel - 4 times - show films
Stephen Gaghan - 4 times - show films
Oliver Stone - 3 times - show films