Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali
Date of Birth: 16 Feb 1974
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (32)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. (imdb)
+5
Predators
A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.
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The Wronged Man
Janet Gregory (Ormond), a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis (Ali), an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, Janet takes Calvin's pro bono case and wages a dramatic and stormy 22-year battle with the justice system that ultimately redeems an unjustly accused man and cements a life-long friendship. (imdb)
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The Place Beyond the Pines
Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes star in this multi-generational crime drama from director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine), about a motorcycle stunt rider whose moonlighting a bank robber brings him into conflict with an ambitious young cop. (tiff.net)
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Go for Sisters
Upon her release from jail, Fontayne enlists the help of Bernice - her estranged old friend and current parole officer - and a disgraced cop to search for his son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
Supremacy
A just paroled white supremacist and his ruthless girlfriend kill a cop and take an African American family hostage. Meanwhile, Sobecki, the heavily-tattooed supremacist leader who oversees his criminal empire from behind bars, is not thrilled when he learns of his charge's screw-up. The patriarch of the family, an ornery ex-con himself, must rely on his wit and understanding of the racist mind to find a plan to free his family, but not before he confronts his own brand of bigotry and anger. (imdb)
+14
True Detective
An anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law. (imdb)
+5
House of Cards
A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him. (imdb)
+2
The 4400
The 4400 (2004) - TV Series
As the reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global community, federal agents on the case slowly discover the ways in which the victims have been changed. (imdb)
Free State of Jones
As civil war divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army. (imdb)
+4
Luke Cage
Luke Cage (2016) - TV Series
Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.
+2
Moonlight
A three-part narrative spanning the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of an African-American man who survives Miami's drug-plagued inner city, finding love in unexpected places and the possibility of change within himself.
+4
Kicks
Brandon is a 15 year old whose dream is a pair of fresh Air Jordans. Soon after he gets his hands on them, they're stolen by a local hood, causing Brandon and his two friends go on a dangerous mission through Oakland to retrieve them.
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Hidden Figures
A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program's first successful space missions.
+5
Roxanne Roxanne
In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in (imdb)
Alita: Battle Angel
An action-packed story of one young woman's journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world. (imdb)
+6
Green Book
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. (imdb)
+6
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man crosses parallel dimensions and teams up with the Spider-Men of those dimensions to stop a threat to all reality.
+5
The Oscars
The Oscars (2019) - TV Special
Honors for achievements in film take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles
Race for the White House
Notable US Presidential election races throughout American history are examined. (imdb)
+8
Amend: The Fight for America
Explore American history through a lens that will have its viewers questioning what a United States really means. (imdb)
Between The World And Me
Adaptation of the 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates, written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. (wikipedia)
Alcatraz
Alcatraz (2012) - TV Series
+2
Alphas
Alphas (2011) - TV Series
+2
Invincible
Invincible (2021) - TV Series
Swan Song
In the near future, a terminally ill man explores a heart wrenching, emotionally complex solution to save his wife and son from grief by duplicating himself without them knowing.
Ramy
Ramy (2019) - TV Series
+2
Chimp Empire
Chimp Empire (2023) - TV Mini-Series
A vast community of chimpanzees thrives in a forest in Uganda, navigating complex social politics, family dynamics and dangerous territory disputes. (imdb)
Leave the World Behind
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices – and two strangers appear at their door. (Netflix)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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Threat Matrix
Special Agent John Kilmer leads an elite team on missions to eliminate terrorists and other threats as part of USA's Homeland Security force. (imdb)
Jurassic World: Rebirth
Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. (imdb)
+3