| | Arrival (2016)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $100.50M Lead Role: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, | Director: Denis Villeneuve, When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors. |
| | The Crying Game (1992)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $62.55M Lead Role: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, | Director: Neil Jordan, A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world. |
| | The Last King of Scotland (2006)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $17.61M Lead Role: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington, | Director: Kevin Macdonald, Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970's. |
| | Ernest et Célestine (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 86 | Earnings: $0.07M Lead Role: Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner, Mackenzie Foy, | Director: The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine. |
| | Southpaw (2015)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 57 | Earnings: $52.42M Lead Role: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker, | Director: Antoine Fuqua, A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction. |
| | Bird (1988)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $2.18M Lead Role: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, | Director: Clint Eastwood, The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker. |
| | Panic Room (2002)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $95.31M Lead Role: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, | Director: David Fincher, A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room, when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune. |
| | The Butler (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $116.63M Lead Role: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, | Director: Lee Daniels, As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
| | Where the Wild Things Are (2009)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $77.22M Lead Role: Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Pepita Emmerichs, | Director: Spike Jonze, Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king. |
| | The Great Debaters (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $30.23M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Kimberly Elise, Nate Parker, | Director: Denzel Washington, A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. |
| | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $3.30M Lead Role: Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, | Director: Jim Jarmusch, An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob. |
| | Phone Booth (2002)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: $46.56M Lead Role: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, | Director: Joel Schumacher, Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. |
| | The Last Stand (2013)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 54 | Earnings: $12.03M Lead Role: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, | Director: Jee-woon Kim, The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff. |
| | Street Kings (2008)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $26.42M Lead Role: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, | Director: David Ayer, An undercover cop, disillusioned by the recent murder of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself. |
| | Na pude aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny? (2009)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $0.06M Lead Role: Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack, Cary Elwes, Vivian Schilling, | Director: A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil. |
| | Burden (2018)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Andrea Riseborough, Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson, | Director: Andrew Heckler, Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mom, and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend. |
| | Finding Steve McQueen (2019)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor, William Fichtner, Forest Whitaker, | Director: Mark Steven Johnson, In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions and blackmail money from President Richard Nixon's secret fund. |
| | Phenomenon (1996)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 41 | Earnings: $104.63M Lead Role: John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall, | Director: Jon Turteltaub, An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis. |
| | Vantage Point (2008)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 40 | Earnings: $72.27M Lead Role: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox, Bruce McGill, | Director: Pete Travis, The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. |
| | Green Dragon (2001)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 49 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Patrick Swayze, Forest Whitaker, Duong Don, Hiep Thi Le, | Director: Timothy Linh Bui, The story of some Vietnamese refugees as they first arrive at Camp Pendleton in the United States as the Vietnam war ends in 1975. |
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