David Oyelowo

Date of Birth: 01 Apr 1976
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 51 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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Based on a short story by award-winning author Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder opens on the year 2055 in downtown Chicago where a very elite travel agency, Time Safari Inc., has cornered the lucrative time-traveling market with an exclusive prehistoric hunting package. Time Safari Inc. is the hottest ticket in town -- until the unthinkable happens. Someone breaks the rules. And evolution runs off its tracks. (Warner Bros.)
Charles Schine (Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Aniston) have noticed each other on the commuter train before. One morning their conversation leads to a flirtation which turns into an evening drink and then, before either one can stop it, a passionate one-night stand. But suddenly a stranger explodes into their world, threatening to expose their secret and lures them into a terrifying game with more surprises then they saw coming and more danger then they may survive. (The Weinstein Company)
In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante... (imdb)
This is a story of a blended Indian/American family. Somehow they've managed to make a family life, except Maya calls Raj by his name, not Dad like Niki and Brijesh. Raj runs the Bollywood Cafe, which is in LA. Jamie has a dance studio with a small class of students, including Maya, learning Kathak. And each night at suppertime, they all sit down together like a real family. But the family harbors a secret that is like a bomb with a fuse that is slowly burning down... (IMDB Comments)
Disturbed by the problems within his own community, naive black Londoner Joe Pascale decides to become personally involved by sacrificing his high-paying tech job to become a teacher at an urban high school. In order to improve the prospects of his students, he utilizes a philosophy of "enforced education," determined to make these teens learn whether they want to or not. (Yahoo! Movies)
A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone. (imdb)
Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008) - TV Movie
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant. (imdb)
The life story of legendary record producer Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records, the label that helped popularize Blues music during the 1950s and '60s.
A Raisin in the Sun (2008) - TV Movie
An African-American family struggles with poverty, racism, and inner conflict as they strive for a better way of life. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry (imdb)
An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
A look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.
Small Island (2009) - TV Movie
Born into an impoverished life in Jamaica, Hortense longs for a fulfilling life in England. The door of opportunity swings open, Hortense marries Gilbert and on her way to the promised land of post-war Britain. Steadfast dreams are tested by the hard realities of racism and poverty. Their only saving grace is Queenie. But Queenie faces her own disillusionment, married to the kind but dull Bernard. These 4 lives fuse together in a powerful and hopeful story of love and fulfillment. (pbs.org)
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. (imdb)
What happens when love takes you places you never thought you would go? When her husband, Derek, is sentenced to eight years in a California prison, Ruby drops out of medical school to maintain her marriage and focus on ensuring Derek's survival in his violent new environment. Driven by love, loyalty, and hope, Ruby learns to sustain the shame, separation, guilt, and grief that a prison wife must bear. (mubi.com)
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate. (imdb)
The story of 4 lives slammed together in a shocking moment. Intercutting between a carjacking and the separate stories of the 4 kids, we watch as they hurtle toward a life-changing end.
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. Based on a book in Lee Child's crime series. (imdb)
Rahab (2011) - Short Film
A slave, a spy, a city under siege and a choice to be made that will change their world forever (imdb)
An African-American's eyewitness accounts of notable events of the 20th century during his tenure as a White House butler. (imdb)
Born Equal (2006) - TV Movie
Four characters living in one neighbourhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
A news crew is taken hostage on an airplane set to take off from the Seychelles by a gang of Somali pirates whose leader is driven by one goal: to be interviewed by a prominent member of the crew, legendary journalist Frank Saltzman. (imdb)
Martin Luther King, Lyndon Baines Johnson and the civil rights marches that changed America. (imdb)
Complicit (2013) - TV Movie
Edward is an MI5 officer desperate to foil what he believes is another 7/7 style atrocity planned by British terror suspect Waleed, despite the lack of any conclusive evidence. Edward, confronted by the key moral dilemma of our time, is forced into choosing between two morally devastating outcomes. (imdb)
In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history. (imdb)
A lonely war veteran psychologically unravels ahead of an old friend's impending visit. (imdb)
In this fact-based thriller, a single mother struggling with drug addiction is randomly taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run from the law for breaking out of jail and murdering the judge assigned to his case - only to realize before the climactic finish that they have actually saved each other's lives. (imdb)
Star Wars Rebels (2014) - TV Series
A brave and clever ragtag starship crew stands up against the evil Empire as it tightens its grip on the galaxy and hunts down the last of the Jedi Knights. (imdb)
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. (imdb)
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico. (imdb)
After a scientific experiment aboard the space station involving a particle accelerator has unexpected results, the astronauts find themselves isolated. Following their horrible discovery, the space station crew must fight for survival. (imdb)
Les Misérables (2019) - TV Mini-Series
Television adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel which follows Jean Valjean as he evades capture by the unyielding Inspector Javert. Set against a backdrop of post-Napoleonic France as unrest beings to grip the city of Paris once more. (imdb)
After a man's family dies in what appears to be a murder, he gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. He's not sure if she's a ghost or if he's going mad, but as it turns out, he's not. (imdb)
Brothers and Sisters (1998) - TV Series
This series revolved around the members of a Baptist congregational choir in Liverpool, England.
Earth's Great Rivers (2019) - TV Mini-Series
Earth's great rivers, from source to sea, make extraordinary journeys carving through continents, nurturing ancient civilizations, feeding and connecting life across our world from the mountains and deserts of the Nile, from the cities and mysterious swamps of the Mississippi and the steaming waters and secret worlds of the tropical Amazon. (imdb)
Despite his efforts, Peter can't seem to shake his reputation for mischief among the other rabbits. Once he adventures out of the garden Peter finds himself in a world where mischief is appreciated, but soon his family come to bring him home.
Peter Pan and his sister, Alice, embark on adventures to Neverland and Wonderland. (imdb)
The Tiger Who Came to Tea (2019) - TV Movie
A young girl befriends a tiger and invites him over for tea.
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe. (imdb)
A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each others' thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. (imdb)
9 Kisses (2014) - Short Film
The 18 most prominent actors of 2014 pair up in a series of intimate encounters. (imdb)
The Girl Before (2021) - TV Mini-Series
Jane falls in love with an extraordinary minimalist house, but when she discovers that another damaged woman died in the same property three years earlier, she starts to wonder if her own story is just a rerun of the girl before. (imdb)
A desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard and rookie Constable Stalker find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit (imdb.com).
Silo (2023) - TV Series
- Freedom Day (2023)
- Holston's Pick (2023)
- Machines (2023)
- Truth (2023)
- The Flamekeepers (2023)
Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023) - TV Mini-Series
About the legendary lawman Bass Reeves, one of the greatest frontier heroes and one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi River.
Struggling to find a better life, Clarence is captivated by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine existence. (imdb)
The After (2023) - Short Film
A grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past. (imdb)
Emma has a wonderful husband and two kids in the suburbs of New Jersey. She also has a secret life as an assassin for hire, a secret that her husband Dave discovers when the couple decide to spice up their marriage with a little role play. (imdb)
Government Cheese (2024) - TV Series
Hampton Chambers a newly released ex-convict striving to leave his criminal history behind and reunite with his family. Amidst this struggle, he grapples with frequent inexplicable moments of divine intervention.