Isaach De Bankolé
Date of Birth: 12 Aug 1957
Country: Côte d'Ivoire
Biography: He has appeared in over thirty films, including Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes and The Limits of Control. He appeared in the movie Machetero, in the role of journalist interviewing an imprisoned Puerto Rican revolutionary, along with the members of the New York City based punk band Ricanstruction. He has also appeared in Lars von Trier's Manderlay. He recently portrayed Steven Obanno, a terrorist, in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale
Total Credits at Criticker: 45 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
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In Jersey City, an African American hit man follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives alone, in simplicity with homing pigeons for company, calling himself Ghost Dog. His master, who saved his life eight years ago, is part of the local mob. When the boss' daughter witnesses one of Ghost Dog's hits, he becomes expendable. The first victims are his birds, and in response, Ghost Dog goes right at his attackers but does not want to harm his master or the young woman... (imdb)
A sober, fictionalized reconstruction of a tale that shocked Stuttgart, Germany, and a gripping portrait of how institutionalized racism drives a disempowered individual to violence and inhumanity.
Manderlay is a plantation where a group of people are living as if slavery hadn't been abolished 70 years earlier. Upon leaving Dogville in 1933, Grace and her father head far south to the state of Alabama where they arrive upon the bizarre place.
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities.(imdb)
When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with eviction, they find themselves fighting against a bureaucracy that few French citizens understand, let alone immigrants. In desperation, they turn to their best option to resolve this dilemma: they call for a sorcerer from home.
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story... (imdb)
The cocaine cowboys of the 80's are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of Miami Vice. (Universal Pictures)
In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.
A sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force.
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. (imdb)
Heart of Darkness (1994) - TV Movie
Marlow is an ambitious and adventurous sailor who is employed by an English trading company and sent to an African colony. There he travels up the river, visiting the trading stations who barters for ivory with the natives. On his journey he is told about a man named Kurtz whose station is the one furthest up the river, deep in the African jungle... (imdb)
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty - and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society. (imdb)
In a war-torn country, Indiana Jones finds a wellspring of hope in the presence of one remarkable man. On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary, forced to fight his conscience, his sense of duty, his own men and the enemy as he battles his way across country.
The film tells a story of Mariana, a depressing nurse working in Lisbon. She accompanies an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip to home. After she arrives in Cape Verde, she encounters the strange and enigmatic world. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama. There she finds that "she brought a living man among the dead." (Wikipedia)
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
24: Redemption (2008) - TV Movie
Film based on the real-time television series "24", which chronicles a day in the life of Federal Agent Jack Bauer. (imdb)
Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant. (imdb)
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. A white French family outlawed in its home and attempting to save its coffee plantation connects with a black hero also embroiled in the tumult. All try to survive as their world rapidly crumbles around them. (imdb)
Struggling with drug addiction in modern-day New York City, an artist and his best friend complete a spiritual journey started 140 years earlier on the Underground Railroad. (imdb)
A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom. (imdb)
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage. (sundance.org)
To make room for tourists the Dakar Senagalese interior minister undertakes a massive cleanup of all beggars and homeless by banishing them from the city. The brutal raids arouse much protest from the homeless and the minister's daughter.
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have unforeseen consequences.
Psychiatrist Malcolm (de Bankole) is trying to raise his middle-class family via his struggling private practice. Invited by his doctor-sponsor Atong (Peter Frances James) to participate in a medical program in a crime-ridden Brooklyn precinct dubbed "The Killing Zone," Malcolm reacts to Atong's murder by pursuing the pint-sized killer (Rony Clayton) with a vengeance the film doesn't prepare viewers for. His intertwined memories of his boyhood suggest the mind at work, but in arbitrary terms.
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him. (imdb)
Mirage tells the story of an African football player in a small Hungarian town, who commits a crime and has to flee. He finds refuge on a farm deep in the Hungarian flatland. Soon he realizes that the farm is a modern slave camp where he is forced to fight for his freedom and ultimately his life. (imdb)
The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history. (imdb)
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse. (imdb)
Set during a time of colonial unrest on the island of Curacao, a group of men play a marathon game of dominoes while discussing a variety of issues. (imdb)
An inheritance brings George home to Equatorial Guinea, where he befriends a young orphan and get a life-changing visit from an old friend. (Netflix)
John Shaft Jr., a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, enlists his family's help to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death.
An aging Manhattan socialite living on what's barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son and cat. (imdb)
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes ; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. (imdb)
Family tensions ramp up among siblings in the week leading up to their half-sister's wedding in England. (imdb)
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.
At age nineteen, a young woman is jilted at the altar. This leads to a declaration that she will swear off men forever. Now ten years later, she suddenly decides she would like to have a child. She advertises in the newspaper for potential mates, whether by traditional methods or by sperm donors, but gets nothing but losers. However, two neighborhood men vie for her attention - her gynecologist and a professional clown. (imdb)
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner. (imdb)
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Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. Thibault, one of Vincent's students, invades his family and slowly the couple, whose desires seem now so far away, falls apart. But Thibault's intentions are not at all motivated by love. (imdb)
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